U+0265 "ɥ" Latin Small Letter Turned H Unicode Character

U+0265 "ɥ" Latin Small Letter Turned H is a typographic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the voiced labial–palatal approximant, a sound found in languages such as French (e.g., the "u" in "huit") and Mandarin Chinese. Its glyph resembles a lowercase "h" rotated 180 degrees, distinguishing it from the standard "h" which denotes a voiceless glottal fricative. This character is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, ensuring its proper display in digital text for phonetic transcription and linguistic research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0265
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Turned H
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0265
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000265
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0265

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	"Ɥ" U+A78D Latin Capital Letter Turned H
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɥ" U+A78D Latin Capital Letter Turned H
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɥ" U+A78D Latin Capital Letter Turned H
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɥ" U+A78D Latin Capital Letter Turned H
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