U+1D41 "ᵁ" Modifier Letter Capital U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᵁ
U+1D41 "ᵁ" Modifier Letter Capital U is a small, superscript version of the uppercase letter U, classified as a modifier letter primarily used in phonetic transcription. It appears in the International Phonetic Alphabet and other linguistic notation systems to indicate a secondary articulation, such as labialization, or to represent a reduced vowel quality. This character is positioned in the Unicode block called "Phonetic Extensions," which contains letters specifically designed for fine-grained representation of speech sounds, and it is distinct from the regular superscript or combining characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D41 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Capital U |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᵁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᵁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB5 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D41 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d41 |
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 | "u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U |
| 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 |