U+021E "Ȟ" Latin Capital Letter H with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+021E "Ȟ" Latin Capital Letter H with Caron is a specialized character used primarily in several Slavic and Baltic language orthographies, particularly in some alphabets for transcribing Finno-Ugric languages as well as in certain Native American language documentation. This letter combines the Latin uppercase H with a caron diacritic mark (a small inverted caret placed above the letter) to represent a distinct sound, typically a voiceless glottal fricative with palatalization or a specific phonetic variant that differs from the plain H. It is part of the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, ensuring its availability for digital text in linguistic, academic, and cultural contexts where precise phonetic representation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+021E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter H with Caron |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "H" U+0048 Latin Capital Letter H "̌" U+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x021E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000021E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u021e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ȟ" U+021F Latin Small Letter H with Caron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȟ" U+021F Latin Small Letter H with Caron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȟ" U+021F Latin Small Letter H with Caron |
| Case Folding | "ȟ" U+021F Latin Small Letter H with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȟ" U+021F Latin Small Letter H with Caron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȟ" U+021F Latin Small Letter H with Caron |
| 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 |