U+02BE "ʾ" Modifier Letter Right Half Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+02BE "ʾ" Modifier Letter Right Half Ring is a diacritical mark primarily used in linguistic transcription systems, most famously in the romanization of Arabic and Semitic languages to represent the glottal stop or the Arabic letter hamza (ء). It appears as a small raised half ring shaped like a turned comma or apostrophe, similar in form to a left single quotation mark, and is distinct from the similar but leftward facing modifier letter left half ring (U+02BF). When applied, it modifies the preceding letter to indicate a specific phonetic quality, and its careful encoding as a separate character allows for consistent typesetting and digital representation in scholarly texts, linguistic databases, and transliteration standards like the Library of Congress or ISO systems.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ʾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ʾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xCA 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x02BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000002BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u02be |
Unicode Properties