U+0189 "Ɖ" Latin Capital Letter African D Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0189 "Ɖ" Latin Capital Letter African D is a distinct letter used in several African languages, most notably in Gbe languages such as Fon and Ewe, where it represents a voiced alveolar implosive sound, similar to a retroflex d. Its uppercase form features a distinctive hook or tail attached to the lower left side of the capital D, while the corresponding lowercase character is U+0256 "ɖ" Latin Small Letter D with Tail. This character is an essential part of the African reference alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet, ensuring accurate phonetic transcription and written representation in these linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0189 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter African D |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0189 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000189 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0189 |
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 | "ɖ" U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɖ" U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɖ" U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail |
| Case Folding | "ɖ" U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɖ" U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɖ" U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail |
| 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 |