U+1D9B "ᶛ" Modifier Letter Small Turned Alpha Unicode Character

U+1D9B "ᶛ" Modifier Letter Small Turned Alpha is a typographic symbol used in phonetic transcription, specifically within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) extension block. It represents a small, superscript version of the turned Latin alpha, which in the IPA denotes a near-open central vowel. This modifier letter is employed to indicate a reduced or shortened articulation of that vowel sound, often appearing in phonetic notations for languages or dialects with complex vowel systems, such as in some African or minority languages. It forms part of the broader set of modifier letters that allow precise annotation of speech sounds in academic and linguistic texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D9B
Version Added	4.1
Name	Modifier Letter Small Turned Alpha
Block	Phonetic Extensions Supplement
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ɒ" U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᶛ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᶛ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB6 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1D9B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001D9B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1d9b

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	"ɒ" U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɒ" U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
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