U+02B1 "ʱ" Modifier Letter Small H with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʱ
U+02B1 "ʱ" Modifier Letter Small H with Hook is a diacritic mark used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a breathy-voiced or murmured glottal transition, typically indicating a slight, voiced aspiration following a consonant sound. It appears as a lowercase Roman letter h with a hook extending from the top of its vertical stroke, and it is often employed in phonetic transcriptions of languages where such murmured releases are phonemically distinct, such as in some dialects of Indic languages or in Bantu linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02B1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Small H with Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Modifier Letter Small H Hook |
| Block | Spacing Modifier Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ɦ" U+0266 Latin Small Letter H with Hook |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02B1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02b1 |
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 | "ɦ" U+0266 Latin Small Letter H with Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɦ" U+0266 Latin Small Letter H with Hook |
| 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 |