U+1D16 "ᴖ" Latin Small Letter Top Half O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᴖ
U+1D16 "ᴖ" Latin Small Letter Top Half O is a specialized glyph used primarily in phonetic transcription, most notably within the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a sound like the initial vowel in the English word "ought" or to denote an intermediate quality between two vowels. Its design consists of the upper half of a lowercase letter "o" and is classified as a spacing modifier letter, which means it can combine with other characters to indicate nuances in pronunciation or vocal tract configuration. This character is not commonly used in everyday writing but is valuable in linguistic analysis and documentation of less common speech sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D16 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Top Half O |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᴖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᴖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB4 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d16 |