U+1078C "𐞌" Modifier Letter Small D with Hook Unicode Character

U+1078C "𐞌" Modifier Letter Small D with Hook is a part of the Latin Extended F block, designed for use in phonetic transcription, particularly within African linguistics to represent a voiced dental or alveolar implosive sound. This character is a superscript or modifier form of a letter resembling a "d" with a hook, serving as a diacritic to indicate a modified pronunciation of a preceding base character. It is encoded for specialized scholarly and linguistic applications, ensuring precise representation of certain speech sounds that are not captured by standard Latin letters. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital exchange of complex phonetic data across languages and writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1078C
Version Added	14.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small D with Hook
Block	Latin Extended-F
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ɗ" U+0257 Latin Small Letter D with Hook

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐞌
HTML Hex Encoding	𐞌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x9E 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDF8C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001078C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udf8c

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	"ɗ" U+0257 Latin Small Letter D with Hook
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɗ" U+0257 Latin Small Letter D 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