U+1D5E "ᵞ" Modifier Letter Small Greek Gamma Unicode Character

U+1D5E "ᵞ" Modifier Letter Small Greek Gamma is a typographic symbol classified as a modifier letter, designed to represent a superscript or smaller form of the Greek lowercase gamma for phonetic transcription. It belongs to the Phonetic Extensions block, which contains characters used in various linguistic notation systems, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) or Americanist phonetic notation. This character is employed to denote a voiced velar fricative sound or a related secondary articulation, functioning as a diacritic-like modifier that alters or clarifies the pronunciation of adjacent characters. Its use helps linguists and phoneticians represent nuanced speech sounds with greater precision in written form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D5E
Version Added	4.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small Greek Gamma
Block	Phonetic Extensions
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᵞ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᵞ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB5 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1D5E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001D5E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1d5e

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	"γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma
NFKC Simple Casefold	"γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
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