U+01EF "ǯ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01EF "ǯ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Caron is a specialized letter used primarily in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet and certain linguistic transcriptions for representing a voiced postalveolar affricate sound, similar to the "j" in English "judge." It combines the basic ezh shape, which itself derives from the cursive form of the Latin letter "z," with a diacritical caron placed above it to indicate a specific phonetic modification. This character is distinct from other similar letters, such as the plain ezh or the ezh with a tail, and is encoded in the Unicode Latin Extended-B block to support precise representation of phonetic details in scholarly and language documentation contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01EF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Ezh with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Yogh Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ʒ" U+0292 Latin Small Letter Ezh "̌" U+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01ef |
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 | "Ǯ" U+01EE Latin Capital Letter Ezh with Caron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ǯ" U+01EE Latin Capital Letter Ezh with Caron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ǯ" U+01EE Latin Capital Letter Ezh with Caron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ǯ" U+01EE Latin Capital Letter Ezh 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 |