U+107AE "𐞮" Modifier Letter Small Tesh Digraph Unicode Character

U+107AE "𐞮" Modifier Letter Small Tesh Digraph is part of the Latin Extended G block, specifically designed to support phonetic transcription systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet or Americanist orthographies. This character represents a superscript or modifier version of the "tesh" ligature, which is a digraph combining the sounds "t" and "ʃ" (as in the "ch" in "chat"). It functions as a diacritical mark to modify the phonetic value of a preceding character, often indicating a subtle variation in articulation like aspiration or palatalization. The inclusion of this modifier in Unicode allows for precise representation of nuanced speech sounds in linguistic research and documentation of endangered languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+107AE
Version Added	14.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small Tesh Digraph
Block	Latin Extended-F
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ʧ" U+02A7 Latin Small Letter Tesh Digraph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐞮
HTML Hex Encoding	𐞮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x9E 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDFAE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000107AE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udfae

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	"ʧ" U+02A7 Latin Small Letter Tesh Digraph
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ʧ" U+02A7 Latin Small Letter Tesh 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