U+029C "ʜ" Latin Letter Small Capital H Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+029C "ʜ" Latin Letter Small Capital H is a typographic glyph used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiceless epiglottal fricative, a sound produced by constricting the airflow through the pharynx. It visually resembles an uppercase "H" but is scaled to the size of lowercase letters, and it belongs to the category of small capital letters within the Unicode IPA Extensions block. This character is distinct from the standard Latin letter "H" in its phonetic application, serving as a precise symbol for linguistic transcription in field of phonetics and speech science.

General Properties

Code Point U+029C
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Letter Small Capital H
Block IPA Extensions
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ʜ
HTML Hex Encoding ʜ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xCA 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x029C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000029C
C/C++/Java Escape \u029c

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