U+020B "ȋ" Latin Small Letter I with Inverted Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+020B "ȋ" Latin Small Letter I with Inverted Breve is a specialized glyph used primarily in phonetic transcription and certain linguistic orthographies to represent a distinct vowel sound. The inverted breve, a diacritical mark placed above the letter "i", typically indicates a short or extra-short pronunciation, contrasting with the standard breve which marks short vowels. This character appears in scholarly texts, particularly those describing the phonetics of languages such as Romanian or certain Slavic dialects, where it helps precisely denote the length and quality of the vowel. It is part of the Latin Extended-B block in Unicode, ensuring consistent digital representation across academic and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+020B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| 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+0311 Combining Inverted Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ȋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ȋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x020B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000020B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u020b |
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 | "Ȋ" U+020A Latin Capital Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ȋ" U+020A Latin Capital Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ȋ" U+020A Latin Capital Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ȋ" U+020A Latin Capital Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| 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 |