U+0242 "ɂ" Latin Small Letter Glottal Stop Unicode Character

U+0242 "ɂ" Latin Small Letter Glottal Stop is a typographic representation of the glottal stop sound, which is a consonant produced by briefly closing the vocal cords, common in many languages including Hawaiian, Arabic, and various indigenous languages of the Americas. It is visually distinct from the similar-looking modifier letter apostrophe, as it is designed specifically as a letter for phonetic alphabets and orthographies. This character is often used in linguistic transcription and language documentation to denote a phonemic glottal stop, helping to differentiate minimal pairs in writing. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for accurate text processing and scholarly work.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0242
Version Added	5.0
Name	Latin Small Letter Glottal Stop
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɂ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɂ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0242
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000242
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0242

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ɂ" U+0241 Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɂ" U+0241 Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɂ" U+0241 Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɂ" U+0241 Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop
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