U+1D2D "ᴭ" Modifier Letter Capital Ae Unicode Character

U+1D2D "ᴭ" Modifier Letter Capital Ae is a typographic glyph used primarily in phonetic transcription and linguistic notation, specifically within the International Phonetic Alphabet extensions. It represents a modified or capital form of the Latin letter ae ligature, and its function as a modifier letter means it is used to indicate a secondary or altered articulation of a preceding sound, often in contexts such as depicting vowel qualities or prosodic features. This character is part of the Phonetic Extensions block, which includes various small, superscript, or modified letters designed for precise phonetic representation in scholarly and technical writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D2D
Version Added	4.0
Name	Modifier Letter Capital Ae
Block	Phonetic Extensions
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"Æ" U+00C6 Latin Capital Letter Ae

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᴭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᴭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB4 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1D2D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001D2D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1d2d

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	"æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae
NFKC Simple Casefold	"æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae
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