U+10783 "𐞃" Modifier Letter Small Ae Unicode Character

U+10783 "𐞃" Modifier Letter Small Ae is a diacritical mark used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a modified or secondary articulation, specifically a raised or centralized variant of the vowel sound represented by the letter "ae". It belongs to the block of Latin Extended-F characters, which were added to the Unicode Standard to support specialized phonetic transcription needs. This modifier letter is typically applied in precise linguistic notation to indicate a subtle shift in vowel quality, such as in the transcription of some African or other world languages, where it helps distinguish sounds that are close to but not identical to the standard "ae" vowel.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10783
Version Added	14.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small Ae
Block	Latin Extended-F
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐞃
HTML Hex Encoding	𐞃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x9E 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDF83
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010783
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udf83

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	"æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae
NFKC Simple Casefold	"æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae
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