U+1DA6 "ᶦ" Modifier Letter Small Capital I Unicode Character

U+1DA6 "ᶦ" Modifier Letter Small Capital I is a superscript or raised version of a small capital letter I, used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a very close near-front unrounded vowel or to indicate that a vowel is especially short or non syllabic. This character belongs to the Latin Extended F block and serves as a phonetic modifier, often appearing in linguistic transcriptions to denote a reduced or secondary articulation. Its design resembles a capital "I" but in a smaller, elevated form, distinguishing it from the standard lowercase or full capital I in written phonetic notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1DA6
Version Added	4.1
Name	Modifier Letter Small Capital I
Block	Phonetic Extensions Supplement
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ɪ" U+026A Latin Letter Small Capital I

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᶦ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᶦ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB6 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1DA6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001DA6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1da6

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	"ɪ" U+026A Latin Letter Small Capital I
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɪ" U+026A Latin Letter Small Capital I
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