U+01AE "Ʈ" Latin Capital Letter T with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
U+01AE "Ʈ" Latin Capital Letter T with Retroflex Hook is a specialized phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and some linguistic orthographies to represent a voiceless retroflex plosive sound, produced with the tongue curled back against the hard palate rather than the alveolar ridge. In the IPA, its lowercase counterpart is “ʈ”, and this uppercase variant is often employed in language transcription systems where case distinctions are necessary, such as in extended Latin orthographies for certain African languages or scholarly phonetic notation. The retroflex hook attached to the base of the standard capital T visually indicates the retroflex articulation, distinguishing it from the plain alveolar “T”. This character is encoded in the Unicode block for Latin Extended-B, ensuring its consistent representation across digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01AE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter T with Retroflex Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter T Retroflex Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ʈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ʈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01ae |
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 | "ʈ" U+0288 Latin Small Letter T with Retroflex Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ʈ" U+0288 Latin Small Letter T with Retroflex Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ʈ" U+0288 Latin Small Letter T with Retroflex Hook |
| Case Folding | "ʈ" U+0288 Latin Small Letter T with Retroflex Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ʈ" U+0288 Latin Small Letter T with Retroflex Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ʈ" U+0288 Latin Small Letter T with Retroflex 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 |