U+1D5C "ᵜ" Modifier Letter Small Ain Unicode Character

U+1D5C "ᵜ" Modifier Letter Small Ain is a superscript or modified version of the Latin letter representing the voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, which is associated with the Semitic letter 'Ayin' and is commonly used in phonetic transcription systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet. This modifier letter is employed primarily in linguistic contexts to denote secondary articulation, prenasalization, or other subtle phonetic features in the transcription of languages that include this distinct guttural consonant. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars can accurately represent the precise pronunciation of sounds found in languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and various African languages within digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D5C
Version Added	4.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small Ain
Block	Phonetic Extensions
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ᴥ" U+1D25 Latin Letter Ain

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᵜ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᵜ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB5 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1D5C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001D5C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1d5c

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	"ᴥ" U+1D25 Latin Letter Ain
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᴥ" U+1D25 Latin Letter Ain
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