U+0256 "ɖ" Latin Small Letter D with Tail Unicode Character

U+0256 "ɖ" Latin Small Letter D with Tail is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced retroflex plosive, a sound produced by curling the tip of the tongue back against the hard palate. It is distinct from the letter "d" and appears in romanized forms of languages like Hausa or in linguistic transcriptions for Dravidian and Indic languages. Visually, it consists of a lowercase 'd' with a small rightward hook or tail extending from the bottom of the vertical stem.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0256
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter D with Tail
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter D Retroflex Hook
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɖ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɖ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0256
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000256
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0256

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	"Ɖ" U+0189 Latin Capital Letter African D
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɖ" U+0189 Latin Capital Letter African D
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɖ" U+0189 Latin Capital Letter African D
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɖ" U+0189 Latin Capital Letter African D
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