U+1D48 "ᵈ" Modifier Letter Small D Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1D48 "ᵈ" Modifier Letter Small D is a superscript or raised lowercase letter D used primarily in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a variety of modifications to a preceding sound, such as lenition, aspiration, or a voiced dental or alveolar plosive articulation. It belongs to the Phonetic Extensions block of Unicode, which was designed to support specialized linguistic notation for documenting spoken languages. This character functions as a diacritic modifier, meaning it is not typically used standalone but is attached or closely associated with another base character to alter its phonetic value, and it appears in scholarly texts, dictionaries, and language documentation to represent subtle distinctions in pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D48
Version Added 4.0
Name Modifier Letter Small 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+0064 Latin Small Letter D

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᵈ
HTML Hex Encoding ᵈ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB5 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1D48
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001D48
C/C++/Java Escape \u1d48

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