Turned a (capital: , lowercase: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet based upon the letter A. It is not, nor has it ever been, used in any natural languages as a letter in its own right.

Lowercase (in two story form) is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to identify the near-open central vowel. A variant, turned alpha, , is also used in the IPA as the open back rounded vowel.

The symbol ∀ bears the same shape of (a capital turned A) and is used in mathematics and logic to identify universal quantification. In entertainment, the Japanese anime Turn A Gundam uses ∀ as part of both the title and the name of the titular mecha.

is encoded in Unicode at U+0250 (in the IPA section) and is encoded in Unicode at U+2C6F (in the Latin Extension C, though very few fonts support it as of 2008). The similar turned alpha, , is encoded at U+0252, and the uppercase tunerd alpha, at U+2C70. The mathematical symbol is encoded in Unicode at U+2200 (in the Mathematical Operators section, and only in a sans-serif form). The Symbol font includes ∀ at position 34 (the quotation mark point in ASCII and Unicode).

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