Upside Down A
ɐ is a small a that has been turned half a revolution.
Turn a lowercase a through 180 degrees and the round bowl ends up on top with the stem on the left. Unicode treats that shape as its own letter, ɐ, in the IPA Extensions block, so common phone and desktop fonts already draw it. If you want a taller, capital-sized version, use Ɐ (U+2C6F, Latin Capital Letter Turned A) instead; the generator on the home page switches to it whenever you type a capital A.
| Normal letter | A |
|---|---|
| Flipped | ɐ |
| Unicode name | Latin Small Letter Turned A |
| Code point | U+0250 |
| Capital form | Ɐ (U+2C6F) |
Where you will see ɐ
Phoneticians write ɐ for a near-open central vowel, the weak ending many speakers give to the German word aber. Outside linguistics it turns up in flipped usernames and jokes. The capital Ɐ is also handy as a lookalike for the logic sign ∀ (for all), although the two are different characters.
Copy and paste examples
banana→ɐuɐuɐqa day→ʎɐp ɐjava→ɐʌɐſahaha→ɐɥɐɥɐ
Good to know
Is ɐ the same as the logic symbol ∀?
No. ∀ is U+2200, a mathematical operator. Ɐ looks similar but is a letter, so a search for one will not find the other.
All the flipped letters are listed on the letters page, or type a whole sentence into the upside down text generator.