U+0287 "ʇ" Latin Small Letter Turned T Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʇ
U+0287 "ʇ" Latin Small Letter Turned T is a typographic symbol representing a rotated lowercase "t" by 180 degrees, primarily used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a voiceless dental click sound, which is a speech sound made by sucking air against the teeth, common in languages like Zulu and Xhosa. Its design, resembling an upside down "t", distinguishes it from similar symbols like the retroflex t, and it also appears in other linguistic notations and occasional decorative text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0287 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Turned T |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0287 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000287 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0287 |
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 | "Ʇ" U+A7B1 Latin Capital Letter Turned T |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ʇ" U+A7B1 Latin Capital Letter Turned T |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ʇ" U+A7B1 Latin Capital Letter Turned T |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ʇ" U+A7B1 Latin Capital Letter Turned T |
| 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 |