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 |