U+1D92 "ᶒ" Latin Small Letter E with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1D92 "ᶒ" Latin Small Letter E with Retroflex Hook is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a retroflex variant of the vowel or semivowel sound normally denoted by the letter "e." The retroflex hook, appended to the bottom of the standard lowercase e, indicates that the sound is produced with the tongue curled back toward the hard palate, a feature common in certain languages such as Mandarin Chinese and some Indian languages. This character belongs to the Phonetic Extensions block of Unicode, which contains numerous specialized letters for precise linguistic transcription. As a result, it is rarely encountered in everyday text but serves an important role in scholarly works on phonetics and language documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D92
Version Added 4.1
Name Latin Small Letter E with Retroflex Hook
Block Phonetic Extensions Supplement
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᶒ
HTML Hex Encoding ᶒ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB6 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1D92
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001D92
C/C++/Java Escape \u1d92

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Lowercase Yes
Cased Yes
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower