U+1D58 "ᵘ" Modifier Letter Small U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᵘ
U+1D58 "ᵘ" Modifier Letter Small U is a superscript or raised version of the lowercase letter 'u', classified as a phonetic modifier in the Latin Extended range. It is primarily used in linguistic transcription systems, notably within the International Phonetic Alphabet, to denote secondary articulation features such as labialization or to represent a reduced, non-syllabic vowel sound. This character allows scholars to precisely indicate slight changes in pronunciation without altering the primary letter, making it an essential tool for phonetic notation and the documentation of spoken languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D58 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Small 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+0075 Latin Small Letter U |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᵘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᵘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB5 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d58 |
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 |