U+02B0 "ʰ" Modifier Letter Small H Unicode Character

U+02B0 "ʰ" Modifier Letter Small H is a superscript form of the lowercase letter H used primarily in phonetic transcription to indicate aspiration of a preceding consonant, as found in the International Phonetic Alphabet and other linguistic notation systems. It appears as a raised, smaller version of the standard H and is employed to show that a sound is accompanied by a puff of air, such as in the English "p" in "pin" versus "spin." This modifier character is also utilized in some transliteration schemes and scholarly writing to represent a breathed or h-like release at the end of a stop consonant, and it belongs to the Spacing Modifier Letters block in the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point	U+02B0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Modifier Letter Small H
Block	Spacing Modifier Letters
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"h" U+0068 Latin Small Letter H

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ʰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ʰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCA 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x02B0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000002B0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u02b0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Other Lowercase	Yes
Case Ignorable	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"h" U+0068 Latin Small Letter H
NFKC Simple Casefold	"h" U+0068 Latin Small Letter H
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower