U+1D60 "ᵠ" Modifier Letter Small Greek Phi Unicode Character

U+1D60 "ᵠ" Modifier Letter Small Greek Phi is a superscript version of the lowercase Greek letter phi, used primarily in phonetic transcription and linguistic notation to denote a secondary articulation or a reduced, non-syllabic variant of the consonant it modifies. This character belongs to the "Phonetic Extensions" block of the Unicode standard, which provides specialized symbols for representing subtle distinctions in speech sounds across languages. Its small, elevated form allows it to be combined with other letters without disrupting the flow of text, making it a useful tool for linguists transcribing sounds in the International Phonetic Alphabet or other scholarly systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D60
Version Added	4.0
Name	Modifier Letter Small Greek Phi
Block	Phonetic Extensions
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"φ" U+03C6 Greek Small Letter Phi

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᵠ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᵠ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB5 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1D60
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001D60
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1d60

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	"φ" U+03C6 Greek Small Letter Phi
NFKC Simple Casefold	"φ" U+03C6 Greek Small Letter Phi
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