U+1D46 "ᵆ" Modifier Letter Small Turned Ae Unicode Character

U+1D46 "ᵆ" Modifier Letter Small Turned Ae is a specialized typographic symbol used in phonetic transcription, particularly within extensions of the International Phonetic Alphabet. It represents a small, superscript version of the turned ae ligature, which itself denotes a near-open front unrounded vowel, but as a modifier letter it is employed to indicate a secondary articulation, such as labialization or a fricative release, or to denote a reduced or fleeting vowel sound in linguistic notation. This character is part of the Phonetic Extensions block and is typically used by linguists and language scholars to capture subtle distinctions in spoken language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D46
Version Added	4.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small Turned Ae
Block	Phonetic Extensions
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ᴂ" U+1D02 Latin Small Letter Turned Ae

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᵆ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᵆ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB5 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1D46
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001D46
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1d46

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	"ᴂ" U+1D02 Latin Small Letter Turned Ae
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᴂ" U+1D02 Latin Small Letter Turned 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