U+1D30 "ᴰ" Modifier Letter Capital D Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᴰ
U+1D30 "ᴰ" Modifier Letter Capital D is a small, superscript-style version of a capital D used primarily in phonetic transcription systems such as the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It serves as a modifier to indicate a specific sound quality or to denote that the base letter should be pronounced with a voiced dental or alveolar stop articulation, often representing a reduced or secondary articulation in linguistic notation. Unlike its lowercase counterpart, this capital form provides a distinct visual cue for phonological distinctions in specialized writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D30 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Capital D |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "D" U+0044 Latin Capital Letter D |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᴰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᴰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB4 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d30 |
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 | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
| 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 |