U+1D65 "ᵥ" Latin Subscript Small Letter V Unicode Character

U+1D65 "ᵥ" Latin Subscript Small Letter V is a typographic glyph belonging to the Latin Extended C block, designed as a small, lowered version of the letter v for use in subscript phonetic notations. It is primarily employed in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and other linguistic transcription systems to represent a reduced or secondary articulation, often indicating a short, unstressed, or auxiliary sound in the pronunciation of words. The character functions as a diacritic modifier when attached to other letters, helping linguists specify subtle variations in speech sounds, and it is distinct from the regular Latin letter v in both size and baseline position.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D65
Version Added	4.0
Name	Latin Subscript Small Letter V
Block	Phonetic Extensions
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Sub
Decomposition Mapping	"v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᵥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᵥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB5 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1D65
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001D65
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1d65

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	"v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V
NFKC Simple Casefold	"v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V
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