U+0267 "ɧ" Latin Small Letter Heng with Hook Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ɧ

U+0267 "ɧ" Latin Small Letter Heng with Hook is a phonetic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiceless palatal-velar fricative, a sound that combines elements of both a palatal and a velar fricative, though its exact articulation is debated and varies by language. It is most famously associated with the Swedish "sje" sound, as heard in words like "sju" (seven), where it functions as a distinct phoneme. The letter is visually derived from the Latin letter "h" with a hook on its ascender, distinguishing it from similar characters like the regular "ɦ" (with a hook on the top). Despite its specialized use, the glyph appears in some orthographies and linguistic transcriptions, making it a niche but crucial symbol for accurately representing certain speech sounds in languages like Swedish and some dialects of German.

General Properties

Code Point U+0267
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter Heng with Hook
Unicode 1.0 Name Latin Small Letter Heng Hook
Block IPA Extensions
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ɧ
HTML Hex Encoding ɧ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC9 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0267
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000267
C/C++/Java Escape \u0267

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
Cased 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