U+1DA5 "ᶥ" Modifier Letter Small Iota Unicode Character

U+1DA5 "ᶥ" Modifier Letter Small Iota is a superscript or modified version of the small iota letter, primarily used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to indicate a secondary articulation or a specific phonetic modification of a preceding sound. It belongs to the "Phonetic Extensions Supplement" block and serves as a diacritic-like modifier in phonetic transcription, often representing a weak or palatalized iota-like glide in certain languages or linguistic contexts. This character is encoded specifically for precise representation of speech sounds in scholarly texts, making it distinct from the standard Greek or Latin small iota by its elevated position and reduced size.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1DA5
Version Added	4.1
Name	Modifier Letter Small Iota
Block	Phonetic Extensions Supplement
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ɩ" U+0269 Latin Small Letter Iota

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᶥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᶥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB6 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1DA5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001DA5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1da5

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	"ɩ" U+0269 Latin Small Letter Iota
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɩ" U+0269 Latin Small Letter Iota
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