List of Latin-script letters


This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.

Basic Latin

Other letters

LetterNameWriting systemIPA valueNotes
Small capital ANonstandard IPAUsed in Sinological phonetic notation
Small capital AFUT
Ɐ ɐ ᵄTurned AIPAIPA near-open central vowel
Ɑ ɑ ᵅAlpha IPA, Cameroon Languages, DukaIPA open back unrounded vowel, cf. Greek: Α α
Barred alpha
Inverted alpha APA
Ɒ ɒ ᶛTurned alpha IPA, APAIPA open back rounded vowel
Ɒ ɒ ᶛTurned alpha SDAIPA open back rounded vowel
Ɒ ɒ ᶛTurned alpha DaniaIPA open back rounded vowel
ʙ ?Small capital BIPAIPA voiced bilabial trill; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
ʙ ?Small capital BFinno-Ugric transcription
ᴃ ᴯSmall capital barred BFinno-Ugric transcription
Ꞗ ꞗB with flourishMiddle Vietnamese
Ꞵ ꞵLatin BetaNonstandard IPA, Gabon languages, Ndaʼndaʼ; cf. Greek Β β
Small capital CFUT
Ↄ ↄReversed CClaudian letters
Ꭓ ꭓChiNonstandard IPA
Ꭓ ꭓChiAPAIn practice, ortographies like those of Comox or Halkomelem based on APA use the Greek character χ. More common variants of APA use x̌ or x̣ instead.
Ꭓ ꭓChiLepsius Standard Alphabet
Ꭓ ꭓChiTeuthonista or
Chi with low left serifTeuthonista
Chi with low right ringTeuthonista
Ð ð ᶞEthIPAIPA voiced dental fricative, see also Elfdalian, African languages
Ð ð ᶞEthIcelandic, Old English/~/IPA voiced dental fricative, see also Elfdalian, African languages
Ð ð ᶞEthFaroese//IPA voiced dental fricative, see also Elfdalian, African languages
; tau gallicumGaulish and /-/
Ꝺ ꝺInsular D Cornish, Welsh
Ꝺ ꝺInsular DInsular script
Small capital DFUT
Small capital ethFUT
DumLatin, Medieval abbreviation,
DeltaMiddle Welsh cf. Greek Δ δ
Small capital EFUT
Blackletter ETeuthonista
Barred ETeuthonista
E with flourishTeuthonista
Ǝ ᴲ ǝTurned EPan-Nigerian alphabet
Ǝ ᴲ ǝTurned EAnii alphabet/~/
Ǝ ᴲ ǝTurned EAwing alphabet/~/
Ǝ ᴲ ǝTurned EKanuri alphabet
Ǝ ᴲ ǝTurned ELama alphabet
Ǝ ᴲ ǝTurned ELukpa alphabet
Small capital turned EFinno-Ugric transcription
Ə ə ₔ ᵊSchwaIPA, Yom alphabetIPA mid central vowel, Bafut, Berber, Bissa, Bulu, Bura-Pabir, Daba, Dan, Dazaga, Ewondo, Fe'fe', Gude, Kamwe, Kasem, Kpelle, Kwanja, Lamnso', Lyélé, Mada, Makaa, Manengumba, Meta', Mofu-Gudur, Mundang, Mundani, Ngas, Nuni, Parkwa, Pinyin, Socoro, Tarok, Tedaga, Timne, Vengo, Vute, Yamba, Yom, Zulgo-Gemzek, Zhuang. cf. Cyrillic: Ә ә
Ə ə ₔ ᵊSchwaAzerbaijaniIPA mid central vowel, Bafut, Berber, Bissa, Bulu, Bura-Pabir, Daba, Dan, Dazaga, Ewondo, Fe'fe', Gude, Kamwe, Kasem, Kpelle, Kwanja, Lamnso', Lyélé, Mada, Makaa, Manengumba, Meta', Mofu-Gudur, Mundang, Mundani, Ngas, Nuni, Parkwa, Pinyin, Socoro, Tarok, Tedaga, Timne, Vengo, Vute, Yamba, Yom, Zulgo-Gemzek, Zhuang. cf. Cyrillic: Ә ә
Ə ə ₔ ᵊSchwaGeneral Alphabet of Cameroon LanguagesIPA mid central vowel, Bafut, Berber, Bissa, Bulu, Bura-Pabir, Daba, Dan, Dazaga, Ewondo, Fe'fe', Gude, Kamwe, Kasem, Kpelle, Kwanja, Lamnso', Lyélé, Mada, Makaa, Manengumba, Meta', Mofu-Gudur, Mundang, Mundani, Ngas, Nuni, Parkwa, Pinyin, Socoro, Tarok, Tedaga, Timne, Vengo, Vute, Yamba, Yom, Zulgo-Gemzek, Zhuang. cf. Cyrillic: Ә ә
Ə ə ₔ ᵊSchwaKemezung alphabetIPA mid central vowel, Bafut, Berber, Bissa, Bulu, Bura-Pabir, Daba, Dan, Dazaga, Ewondo, Fe'fe', Gude, Kamwe, Kasem, Kpelle, Kwanja, Lamnso', Lyélé, Mada, Makaa, Manengumba, Meta', Mofu-Gudur, Mundang, Mundani, Ngas, Nuni, Parkwa, Pinyin, Socoro, Tarok, Tedaga, Timne, Vengo, Vute, Yamba, Yom, Zulgo-Gemzek, Zhuang. cf. Cyrillic: Ә ә
Ə ə ₔ ᵊSchwaMfumte alphabet, IPA mid central vowel, Bafut, Berber, Bissa, Bulu, Bura-Pabir, Daba, Dan, Dazaga, Ewondo, Fe'fe', Gude, Kamwe, Kasem, Kpelle, Kwanja, Lamnso', Lyélé, Mada, Makaa, Manengumba, Meta', Mofu-Gudur, Mundang, Mundani, Ngas, Nuni, Parkwa, Pinyin, Socoro, Tarok, Tedaga, Timne, Vengo, Vute, Yamba, Yom, Zulgo-Gemzek, Zhuang. cf. Cyrillic: Ә ә
Ɛ ɛ ᵋOpen E IPAIPA open-mid front unrounded vowel, Abidji, Adangme, Adele, Adioukrou, Agatu, Aghem, Ahanta, Aja, Akan, Akoose, Anii, Anufo, Anyin, Avatime, Ayizo Gbe, Baatonum, Bafia, Bafut, Baka, Baoulé, Bariba, Bambara, Bandi, Baoulé, Basa, Berber, Bhele, Bisa, Boko, Budu, Busa, Cerma, Cibak, Dagara, Dan, Dendi, Dii, Dinka, Duala, Dyula, Ewe, Ewondo, Gikyode, Igo, Ikposo, Kako, Kemezung, Kwanja, Lika, Lingala, Maasai, Mandi, Manenguba, Mangbetu, Mbelime, Medumba, Mundani, Nawdm, Ngiemboon, Ngomba, Noni, Nuer, Nyang, Pana, Pinyin language, Shilha, Tamazight, Tigon, Turka, Wuzlam, Yambasa, and Yoruba ; cf. Greek: Ε ε
ɘ ?Reversed EIPAIPA close-mid central unrounded vowel, Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
Ɜ ɜ ᶟReversed open E IPAIPA open-mid central unrounded vowel
ɞ ?Closed reversed open E IPAIPA oPA Open-mid central rounded vowel; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
ʚClosed open E IPA Obsolete IPA open-mid front rounded vowel used from 1904-1920s, misprinted version of ɞ
ʚClosed open E LAMSASObsolete IPA open-mid front rounded vowel used from 1904-1920s, misprinted version of ɞ
ᴈ ᵌTurned open EIPA
FUT
Ꝼ ꝼInsular FOld norseUsed in Norse and Old English contexts, in particular in contrast to f in Latin words
Ꝼ ꝼInsular FOld EnglishUsed in Norse and Old English contexts, in particular in contrast to f in Latin words
Small capital FIPA Medievalist addition
Small capital FOld Norse
Ⅎ ⅎTurned FLatin~Claudian letters
Epigraphic letter reversed F
Lenis FTeuthonista
Ᵹ ᵹInsular GUsed in a variety of phonetic contexts
Closed insular GOrmulum
Ɡ ɡ ᶢScript GIPAIPA voiced velar plosive
Script G with crossed-tailTeuthonista
?Reversed script gextIPAextIPA voiced velodorsal plosive
ɢ ?Small capital GIPAIPA voiced uvular plosive; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
ɢ ?Small capital GFUT
Turned Gletter for transliterating the Georgian letter
?Small capital turned GextIPA/ɢ̠/extIPA voiced upper-pharyngeal plosive
Turned sans-serif capital GMathematical symbol for game quantifier used in game theory.
Ꝿ ꝿTurned insular GWilliam Pryce's notation
Ɣ ɣ ˠGammaIPAIPA voiced velar fricative, Dagbani, Dinka, Ewe, Ikposo, Kabiyé, Kabyle, Kpelle, Tuareg, Wakhi cf. Greek: Γγ
ɤ ?Ram's horn IPAIPA close-mid back unrounded vowel, Dan, Goo; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
Ƣ ƣGhaTatar ; Azerbaijani
ʜ ?Small capital HIPAIPA voiceless epiglottal trill; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
Ƕ ƕHwairGothic
Ⱶ ⱶHalf HClaudian letters; cf. Greek: Ⱶⱶ
Ꟶ ꟶReversed half HEpigraphic letter used in Roman inscriptions from the Roman provinces of Gaul
Ꜧ ꜧ ꭜHengTeuthonistaJuhuri, cf. Cyrillic: Ӈ ӈ
ıDotless ITurkish, Azerbaijani, and other Turkic languages; Thai transliteration
Ɪ ɪ ᶦSmall capital IIPAIPA near-close near-front unrounded vowel, capital form used in Unifon and for Gabonese orthographies
Epigraphic letter I LongaLatin long i in epigraphic style
Sideways IEpigraphic variant of I used in early medieval Celtic inscriptions
ᴉ ᵎTurned iFUT
ᵻ ᶧSmall capital I with strokeIPA Oxford University Press dictionary conventionEnglish or
Ɩ ɩIotaBissa, Kabye; cf. Greek: Ɩ ɩ
J ȷDotless jOld High German
Small capital JFUT
KKelvin signKelvin unit of measure temperature; character decomposition is a capital K
Small capital KFUT
Ʞ ʞTurned KIPAIPA back-released click
?Reversed kextIPA/?/extIPA voiceless velodorsal plosive
?Small capital turned KIPAproposed symbol for generic click phoneme
ʟ ᶫSmall capital LIPAIPA voiced velar lateral approximant
FUT
Ꝇ ꝇBroken LOld Norwegian
Small capital L with strokeFUT
L with double middle tildeTeuthonista
L with middle ringTeuthonista
ꬷ ꭝL with inverted lazy STeuthonista
LumMedieval abbreviation
Ꞁ ꞁTurned LWilliam Pryce's notation of Welsh
Reversed sans-serif capital L
Ꟛ ꟛLambdaSalishan and Wakashan languages
Small capital MFUT
M with crossed-tailTeuthonista
Epigraphic letter inverted M
Epigraphic letter archaic M
MumMedieval abbreviation
ɴ ᶰSmall capital NIPAIPA voiced uvular nasal
ɴ ᶰSmall capital NFUTIPA voiced uvular nasal
ᴎ ᴻSmall capital engFUTcf. Cyrillic: И и
N with crossed-tailTeuthonista
NumMedieval abbreviation
Ŋ ŋ ᵑEngIPAIPA voiced velar nasal, Azerbaijani, Iñupiat, Sámi, Zhuang from 1957 to 1986.
Eng with crossed-tailTeuthonista
?Eng with palatal hookUsed in phonetic transcription
?Reversed engextIPA velodorsal nasal stop
Small capital OFUT
Sideways OFUT
Ꟁ ꟁOld Polish o
Blackletter OTeuthonista
Blackletter O with strokeTeuthonista
Ɔ ɔ ᵓOpen OIPAIPA open-mid back rounded vowel, used in African languages Aghem, Akan, Bafia, Baka, Bariba, Bambara, Baoulé, Bassa, Boko, Dii, Dinka, Duala, Dyula, Ewe, Ewondo, Ikposo, Kako, Kemezung, Kwanja, Lika, Lingala, Maasai, Mandi, Manenguba, Mangbetu, Mbelime, Medumba, Mundani, Nawdm, Ngiemboon, Ngomba, NAwdmNoni, Nuer, Nyang, Pana, Pinyin language, Tigon, Turka, Wuzlam, Yambasa, and Yoruba.
Small capital open OFUT
ꬿOpen O with strokeTeuthonista
Sideways open OFUT
ᴖ ᵔTop half OFUT
ᴗ ᵕBottom half OFUT
Ꞷ ꞷOmega
ɷ ?Closed omegaObsolete IPAObsolete IPA near-close near-back rounded vowel alternative symbol used until 1989; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
Ȣ ȣOuLigature of Latin o and u
ᴕ ᴽSmall capital OuFUTa back vowel of uncertain quality
Small capital PFUT
Epigraphic letter reversed P
ɸ ᶲPhiIPAIPA voiceless bilabial fricative, cf. Greek: Φ φ
Tailless phiFUT
ĸKraNunatsiavummiut dialect of Inuktitut in Canada, formerly Kalaallisut language of Greenland; cf. Greek: Κ κ
Small capital QJapanese linguistics
?Superscript small qUsed as a superscript IPA letter
Ꞃ ꞃ ᫍInsular RVariant of r; Used in Ormulum
Ʀ ʀ ?Yr IPAIPA voiced uvular trill, Old Norse, Alutiiq; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
Ꝛ ꝛR rotundaVariant of r
Small capital reversed RNonstandard IPAcf. Cyrillic: Я я
Small capital reversed RFUT
Small capital R with right legTeuthonista
ɹ ʴTurned RIPAIPA voiced alveolar approximant
Small capital turned RObsolete IPA
Small capital turned RFUT
ʁ ʶSmall capital inverted RIPAIPA voiced uvular fricative
R with crossed-tailAnthropos phonetic transcription system
R without handleTeuthonista
Double RAnthropos phonetic transcription system
Double R with crossed-tailAnthropos phonetic transcription system
Script RTeuthonistaDania transcription; Swedish Dialect Alphabet
Script R with ringTeuthonista
Stirrup RTeuthonista
RumMedieval abbreviation
Small capital rumMedieval abbreviation; cf. the medical abbreviation ℞
Ꝝ ꝝRum rotundaMedieval abbreviation
ſLong SFormer letter of the English, German, Sorbian, and Latvian alphabets
Ꟊ ꟊS with short stroke overlayUsed for tau gallicum in Gaulish
Ꟍ ꟍS with diagonal strokeUsed for Cupeño and Luiseño
Ꞅ ꞅInsular SVariant of s
Ƨ ƨReversed S A letter used in the Zhuang language from 1957 to 1986 to indicate its second tone, cf. Cyrillic: Ꙅ ꙅ
Small capital SMedievalist addition
Ꟗ ꟗMiddle Scots sUsed in Middle Scots
Ꟙ ꟙSigmoid SPalaeographic addition
Ʃ ʃ ᶴEshIPAIPA voiceless postalveolar fricative, Ewe language; cf. Greek: Σ σ,ς
Baseline EshTeuthonista
ƪReversed Esh loopObsolete IPA
ʅSquat reversed eshObsolete IPANonstandard phonetic symbol for the syllabic retroflex approximant, used by Sinologists
Ꞇ ꞇ ᫎInsular TUsed by William Pryce to designate the voiceless dental fricative ; Used in Ormulum
Small capital TFUT
TumMedieval abbreviation
Ʇ ʇTurned TIPA
?Turned t with curlUsed by Douglas Beach for a nasal click in his phonetic description of Khoekhoe
ᴜ ᶸSmall capital UObsolete IPA
ᴝ ᵙSideways UFUT
Sideways U with diaeresisFUT
ꭒ ꭟU with left hookTeuthonistaRousselot-Gilliéron transcription system for Gallo-Romance dialectology
U with short right legTeuthonistaby Otto Bremer and Jakob Vetsch
U bar with short right legTeuthonista
Ɥ ɥ ᶣTurned HIPAIPA voiced labial–palatal approximant, Dan / Gio orthography in Liberia; cf. Cyrillic: Ч ч
Ɯ ɯTurned MIPAIPA close back unrounded vowel, Zhuang ; cf. Cyrillic: Ш ш
ꟺ ᵚSmall capital turned M
Sideways turned MFUT
Ʊ ʊ ᶷUpsilonIPAIPA near-close near-back rounded vowel, African languages Anii, Anyin, Foodo, Kabiyé, Konni, Lukpa, Tem, Yom; cf. Greek: Υ υ
Small capital VFUT
Ỽ ỽMiddle Welsh VMedieval Welsh
Ʌ ʌ ᶺTurned VIPAIPA open-mid back unrounded vowel, Ch'ol, Naninka, Northern Tepehuán, Temne, Wounaan
Small capital WFUT
Ꟃ ꟃAnglicana WMiddle English, medieval Cornish
ʍTurned WIPAIPA voiceless labial–velar fricative
Modifier letter small turned wUsed in linguistic transcriptions of Scots
X with low right ringTeuthonista
X with long left legTeuthonista
X with long left leg and low right ringTeuthonista
X with long left leg with serifTeuthonista
ꭙ̆X with long left leg with serif and breveTeuthonista
ʏ ?Small capital YIPAIPA near-close near-front rounded vowel; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
Y with short right legTeuthonistaSwedish Dialect Alphabet
ʎ ?Turned yIPAIPA voiced palatal lateral approximant, Maltese ; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
? ?Turned y with beltextIPASuperscript form is an IPA superscript letter
Turned sans-serif capital YMathematical symbol for a binary operator, normally with three branches of the same length, each at 120° from the next.
ƍTurned deltaObsolete IPA, /zᵝ/
Small capital ZFUT
Ꝣ ꝣVisigothic ZMedieval Ibero-Romance
Ʒ ʒ ᶾEzhIPAIPA voiced postalveolar fricative, Skolt Sámi, Ewe language; cf. Abkhaz: Ӡ ӡ
Small capital EzhFUT
Ƹ ƹEzh reversedObsolete IPA
Ȝ ȝYoghMiddle English
Sakha YatYakut
Þ þThornOld English, Icelandic
Double thornUsed in Ormulum
Ƿ ƿWynnOld English
Double wynnUsed in Ormulum
Ꝩ ꝩVendMedieval Nordic phoneme or
Ꝫ ꝫEtMedieval abbreviation
Ꝭ ꝭIsMedieval abbreviation
Ꝯ ꝯConMedieval abbreviation
UsMedieval abbreviation
UmMedieval abbreviation
Ꜫ ꜫTresilloMayanMayan ejective uvular stop
Ꜭ ꜭCuatrilloMayanMayan ejective velar stop
Ꜯ ꜯCuatrillo with commaMayanMayan ejective alveolar affricate
Ƽ ƽTone fiveZhuangA letter used in the Zhuang language from 1957 to 1986 to indicate its fifth tone
Ƅ ƅTone sixZhuangZhuang
Ɂ ɂ ʔGlottal stopIPAIPA glottal stop, Canadian aboriginal orthographies
Ꞌ ꞌSaltilloSome orthographies in Mexico and Nigeria
Middle dotSinological tradition
ᴥ ᵜAinFUT untill 1939
Voiced laryngeal spirantFUT
ʕ ˤReversed glottal stopIPAIPA voiced pharyngeal fricative
Ꜣ ꜣEgyptological alefEgyptological transcription~~
Ꜥ ꜥArabic/Hebrew/Egyptological ꜥayinEgyptological transcription~
ʗStretched CObsolete IPAIPA symbol for alveolar click or tenuis alveolar velar click
ǃAlveolar clickIPAIPA symbol for alveolar click or tenuis alveolar velar click
ʖInverted glottal stopIPAIPA symbol for lateral click or tenuis lateral velar click
ǀ ?Dental clickIPAIPA symbol for dental click or tenuis dental velar click superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
ǁ ?Lateral clickIPAIPA symbol for lateral click or tenuis lateral velar click, superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
ǂ ?Palatal clickIPAIPA symbol for palatal click or tenuis palatal velar click, superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
?Stretched c with curlIPA/ᵑʞ/Used by Douglas Beach for a nasal click in his phonetic description of Khoekhoe
? ?Retroflex click with retroflex hookIPAUsed to transcribe a retroflex click; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
ʘ ?Bilabial clicks IPAIPA tenuis bilabial click; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter
ʬBilabial percussiveextIPA
ʭBidental percussiveextIPA
Ꞛ ꞛVolapük AEVolapük
Ꞝ ꞝVolapük OEVolapük
Ꞟ ꞟVolapük UEVolapük ~