U+0125 "ĥ" Latin Small Letter H with Circumflex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ĥ
U+0125 "ĥ" Latin Small Letter H with Circumflex is a precomposed Latin letter used primarily in the Esperanto alphabet, where it writes the phoneme /x/, a voiceless velar fricative similar to the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch." This character is formed by combining a standard lowercase "h" with a circumflex accent placed above it, distinguishing it from a plain "h" and representing a unique sound within the language's orthography. While rare in other writing systems, "ĥ" may also appear in transliterations or linguistic contexts to indicate a specifically aspirated or modified pronunciation of the letter h.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0125 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter H with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter H Circumflex |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "h" U+0068 Latin Small Letter H "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ĥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ĥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0125 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000125 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0125 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ĥ" U+0124 Latin Capital Letter H with Circumflex |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ĥ" U+0124 Latin Capital Letter H with Circumflex |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ĥ" U+0124 Latin Capital Letter H with Circumflex |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ĥ" U+0124 Latin Capital Letter H with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |