U+1D86 "ᶆ" Latin Small Letter M with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᶆ
U+1D86 "ᶆ" Latin Small Letter M with Palatal Hook is a modified version of the standard lowercase letter m, distinguished by a small hook attached to its upper right side that indicates a palatalized pronunciation. This character is part of the Latin Extended Phonetic Alphabet block and is primarily used in phonetic transcription, particularly in the context of the International Phonetic Alphabet extension for representing sounds where the consonant is articulated with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate. It is a relatively rare glyph, often employed in specialized linguistic documentation for certain dialects or historical language studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D86 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter M 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 | ᶆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D86 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d86 |