U+0282 "ʂ" Latin Small Letter S with Hook Unicode Character

U+0282 "ʂ" Latin Small Letter S with Hook is a phonetic symbol representing a voiceless retroflex sibilant fricative, a sound produced with the tongue curled back against the hard palate, commonly found in languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Swedish, and Polish. This character is primarily used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe speech sounds, and its distinctive hook attached to the bottom of the standard letter "s" indicates the retroflex articulation. It belongs to the Latin Extended B block of Unicode and is encoded for use in digital text, enabling precise linguistic notation in fields like phonetics and language documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0282
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter S with Hook
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter S Hook
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ʂ
HTML Hex Encoding	ʂ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCA 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0282
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000282
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0282

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	"Ʂ" U+A7C5 Latin Capital Letter S with Hook
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ʂ" U+A7C5 Latin Capital Letter S with Hook
Uppercase Code Point	"Ʂ" U+A7C5 Latin Capital Letter S with Hook
Titlecase Code Point	"Ʂ" U+A7C5 Latin Capital Letter S with Hook
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