U+021F "ȟ" Latin Small Letter H with Caron Unicode Character

U+021F "ȟ" Latin Small Letter H with Caron is a modified letter used in the transliteration and orthography of several languages, primarily representing a voiceless palatal fricative sound, similar to the "ch" in the English word "loch" but articulated further forward in the mouth. It appears in the standard writing systems of certain Finno-Ugric languages, such as Finnish Romani, and is also employed in academic transcriptions of Slavic languages like Belarusian and Ukrainian to denote the specific h-like consonant. The character is formed by combining a lowercase h with a caron, a diacritical mark resembling an inverted breve, placed above the letter to indicate its altered pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+021F
Version Added	3.0
Name	Latin Small Letter H with Caron
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"h" U+0068 Latin Small Letter H "̌" U+030C Combining Caron

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ȟ
HTML Hex Encoding	ȟ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC8 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x021F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000021F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u021f

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	"Ȟ" U+021E Latin Capital Letter H with Caron
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ȟ" U+021E Latin Capital Letter H with Caron
Uppercase Code Point	"Ȟ" U+021E Latin Capital Letter H with Caron
Titlecase Code Point	"Ȟ" U+021E Latin Capital Letter H 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