U+02E2 "ˢ" Modifier Letter Small S Unicode Character

U+02E2 "ˢ" Modifier Letter Small S is a superscript form of the lowercase letter S, classified within the Spacing Modifier Letters block, and is primarily used in phonetic transcription, particularly in the International Phonetic Alphabet and other linguistic notation systems, to indicate a secondary articulation, a reduced or non-syllabic sound, or to mark the voicelessness or devoicing of an adjacent segment. It can also appear in Americanist phonetic notation or as a diacritic-like marker in some orthographies, where its small size and raised position allow it to modify the meaning of a base character without altering the line spacing of the text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+02E2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Modifier Letter Small S
Block	Spacing Modifier Letters
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ˢ
HTML Hex Encoding	ˢ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCB 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x02E2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000002E2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u02e2

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	"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
NFKC Simple Casefold	"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
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