U+1D9D "ᶝ" Modifier Letter Small C with Curl Unicode Character

U+1D9D "ᶝ" Modifier Letter Small C with Curl is a diacritic mark used primarily in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet extension for disordered speech or specialized linguistic notation. It represents a modified version of the small letter c, distinguished by a curl attached to its top right, and typically signifies a palatalized or slightly altered articulation of the basic c sound. This character is part of the Phonetic Extensions Supplement block and is employed by linguists and speech pathologists to capture subtle phonetic variations not covered by standard IPA symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D9D
Version Added	4.1
Name	Modifier Letter Small C with Curl
Block	Phonetic Extensions Supplement
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ɕ" U+0255 Latin Small Letter C with Curl

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᶝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᶝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB6 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1D9D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001D9D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1d9d

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	"ɕ" U+0255 Latin Small Letter C with Curl
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɕ" U+0255 Latin Small Letter C with Curl
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