U+0187 "Ƈ" Latin Capital Letter C with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0187 "Ƈ" Latin Capital Letter C with Hook is a modified version of the standard Latin letter C, featuring a small hook attached to its lower right side, which historically served as a diacritical mark in certain African languages and phonetic transcription systems. It was originally used in the African reference alphabet and in some orthographies for languages like Bissa and Gbaya, where it represented a specific sound, often described as a voiced bilabial implosive or a similar stop consonant. Today, the character is primarily of historical and academic interest, appearing in Unicode primarily to support digital preservation of older texts and linguistic documentation rather than in modern widespread usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0187 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter C with Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter C Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0187 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000187 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0187 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƈ" U+0188 Latin Small Letter C with Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƈ" U+0188 Latin Small Letter C with Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƈ" U+0188 Latin Small Letter C with Hook |
| Case Folding | "ƈ" U+0188 Latin Small Letter C with Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƈ" U+0188 Latin Small Letter C with Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƈ" U+0188 Latin Small Letter C with Hook |
| 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 | Upper |