U+1D20 "ᴠ" Latin Letter Small Capital V Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1D20 "ᴠ" Latin Letter Small Capital V is a typographic glyph used primarily in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and other linguistic notation systems, where it represents a voiced labiodental approximant or serves as a small capital variant of the letter V to denote a specific vowel quality. It belongs to the Phonetic Extensions block, introduced in Unicode version 4.0, and visually resembles a capital V but is drawn at the height of a lowercase letter, making it distinct from its standard uppercase counterpart. This character supports precise phonetic distinctions in scholarly work on languages and speech sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D20 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Latin Letter Small Capital V |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᴠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᴠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB4 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d20 |