U+1D96 "ᶖ" Latin Small Letter I with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᶖ
U+1D96 "ᶖ" Latin Small Letter I with Retroflex Hook is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a retroflex vowel sound, specifically a slightly retroflexed or rhotacized close front unrounded vowel. It is formed by taking the standard lowercase letter "i" and adding a retroflex hook, a small rightward-curving tail at the bottom, to indicate that the tongue tip is curled back toward the palate during articulation. This character is part of the IPA Extensions block in Unicode and is used in specialized linguistic transcriptions for languages that feature retroflex vowels, though it is not commonly found in standard orthographies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D96 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter I 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 | ᶖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d96 |