U+1079E "𐞞" Modifier Letter Small Lezh Unicode Character

U+1079E "𐞞" Modifier Letter Small Lezh is a diacritical mark used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to indicate a more retracted or “backed” articulation of the base consonant, specifically representing a small version of the lezh letter, which itself symbolizes a voiced palatal lateral fricative. This modifier is part of the Latin Extended-F block, added in Unicode version 14.0 in 2021, and it is employed primarily in phonetic transcription to show subtle variations in speech sounds, often in the context of dialectology or linguistic fieldwork. Its small size distinguishes it from the full letter, allowing it to attach to another character to modify its phonetic value without altering the main symbol’s shape.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1079E
Version Added	14.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small Lezh
Block	Latin Extended-F
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ɮ" U+026E Latin Small Letter Lezh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐞞
HTML Hex Encoding	𐞞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x9E 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDF9E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001079E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udf9e

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	"ɮ" U+026E Latin Small Letter Lezh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɮ" U+026E Latin Small Letter Lezh
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