U+1078B "𐞋" Modifier Letter Small D with Tail Unicode Character

U+1078B "𐞋" Modifier Letter Small D with Tail is a specialized phonetic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced dental or alveolar non sibilant fricative, a sound articulated similarly to the "th" in the English word "then" but with more friction and a retracted tongue position. It belongs to the Latin Extended G block and is classified as a modifier letter, meaning it is typically employed to modify the sound of a preceding or following character in linguistic transcription or phonetic notation. This character was added to the Unicode standard in 2021 as part of a broader effort to encode symbols for endangered language documentation and detailed phonetic analysis.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1078B
Version Added	14.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small D with Tail
Block	Latin Extended-F
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ɖ" U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐞋
HTML Hex Encoding	𐞋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x9E 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDF8B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001078B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udf8b

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	"ɖ" U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɖ" U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail
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