U+1D81 "ᶁ" Latin Small Letter D with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᶁ
U+1D81 "ᶁ" Latin Small Letter D with Palatal Hook is a phonetic symbol used primarily in historical or specialized linguistic notation, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet and related transcription systems to represent a voiced palatal plosive or a palatalized d sound. It is formed by adding a small hook to the right side of the standard lowercase letter "d," which indicates a slight raising of the tongue toward the hard palate during articulation. This character is rarely encountered in modern, standardized IPA usage, as such sounds are typically denoted with a diacritic or other symbols, but it remains part of the Unicode standard to support digitization of older phonetic texts and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D81 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter D with Palatal Hook |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᶁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D81 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d81 |