U+107B8 "𐞸" Modifier Letter Alveolar Click Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐞸
U+107B8 "𐞸" Modifier Letter Alveolar Click is a typographic symbol used in the phonetic representation of certain languages, primarily within the context of the International Phonetic Alphabet extension for clicks. It encodes a modifier letter that indicates a slight phonetic modification or release of an alveolar click sound, a type of percussive consonant produced by the tongue making contact with the alveolar ridge. As part of the Latin Extended G block added in Unicode version 14.0, this character facilitates precise transcription of click consonants found in languages such as those of the Khoisan family in southern Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+107B8 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Alveolar Click |
| Block | Latin Extended-F |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ǂ" U+01C2 Latin Letter Alveolar Click |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐞸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐞸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9E 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDFB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000107B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udfb8 |
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 | "ǂ" U+01C2 Latin Letter Alveolar Click |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǂ" U+01C2 Latin Letter Alveolar Click |
| 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 |