U+1079A "𐞚" Modifier Letter Small Lz Digraph Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐞚

U+1079A "𐞚" Modifier Letter Small Lz Digraph is a specialized diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription, part of the Latin Extended-G block that supports the Teuthonista and other dialectological notation systems. It represents a modified letter derived from the digraph "lz" rendered in a small superscript form, functioning to indicate a specific phonetic nuance or secondary articulation within spoken sounds, often in recordings of Germanic dialects and linguistic fieldwork. This character allows scholars to precisely annotate subtle variations in speech that are not captured by standard letters, preserving detailed phonological data for analysis and comparison.

General Properties

Code Point U+1079A
Version Added 14.0
Name Modifier Letter Small Lz Digraph
Block Latin Extended-F
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping "ʫ" U+02AB Latin Small Letter Lz Digraph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐞚
HTML Hex Encoding 𐞚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x9E 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDF9A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001079A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udf9a

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 "ʫ" U+02AB Latin Small Letter Lz Digraph
NFKC Simple Casefold "ʫ" U+02AB Latin Small Letter Lz Digraph
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