U+0268 "ɨ" Latin Small Letter I with Stroke Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ɨ

U+0268 "ɨ" Latin Small Letter I with Stroke is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the close central unrounded vowel, a sound produced with the tongue positioned high and central in the mouth without rounding the lips. This character, derived from a standard lowercase letter 'i' with a horizontal stroke through its center, appears in the Latin Extended-B block and is often employed in the orthographies of various languages, such as those found in some African and indigenous American tongues, to denote a distinct vowel sound not captured by the ordinary Latin alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+0268
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter I with Stroke
Unicode 1.0 Name Latin Small Letter Barred I
Block IPA Extensions
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ɨ
HTML Hex Encoding ɨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC9 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0268
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000268
C/C++/Java Escape \u0268

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 "Ɨ" U+0197 Latin Capital Letter I with Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ɨ" U+0197 Latin Capital Letter I with Stroke
Uppercase Code Point "Ɨ" U+0197 Latin Capital Letter I with Stroke
Titlecase Code Point "Ɨ" U+0197 Latin Capital Letter I with Stroke
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
Soft Dotted Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower