U+01D0 "ǐ" Latin Small Letter I with Caron Unicode Character
U+01D0 "ǐ" Latin Small Letter I with Caron is a composite glyph used in several languages and phonetic transcription systems, where the caron or háček placed above the letter "i" indicates a specific modification of its pronunciation. This character appears in the Latin alphabet extensions block and is employed in linguistic contexts, such as in the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese, where it denotes the third tone (a falling-rising pitch) on the vowel "i". It is also found in some native languages of the Americas and in phonetic alphabets to represent a palatal or distinctive vowel sound. The character is encoded as a single precomposed form, ensuring consistent representation and use in digital text without relying on combining diacritical marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01D0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter I with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter I Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I "̌" U+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01d0 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ǐ" U+01CF Latin Capital Letter I with Caron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ǐ" U+01CF Latin Capital Letter I with Caron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ǐ" U+01CF Latin Capital Letter I with Caron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ǐ" U+01CF Latin Capital Letter I with Caron |
| 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 |