U+1DA8 "ᶨ" Modifier Letter Small J with Crossed-Tail Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1DA8 "ᶨ" Modifier Letter Small J with Crossed-Tail is a diacritic-like symbol used in phonetic transcription, primarily within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) extension block. It represents a voiced palatal fricative or affricate with a distinctive crossed-tail feature, which indicates a retroflex or otherwise modified articulation in some linguistic contexts. This character is often employed by phoneticians and linguists to denote precise speech sounds in languages that require finer phonetic distinctions, appearing in specialized texts or phonetic notations rather than in everyday writing. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that such detailed phonetic transcriptions can be consistently displayed and shared across digital platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1DA8
Version Added 4.1
Name Modifier Letter Small J with Crossed-Tail
Block Phonetic Extensions Supplement
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping "ʝ" U+029D Latin Small Letter J with Crossed-Tail

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᶨ
HTML Hex Encoding ᶨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB6 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1DA8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001DA8
C/C++/Java Escape \u1da8

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 "ʝ" U+029D Latin Small Letter J with Crossed-Tail
NFKC Simple Casefold "ʝ" U+029D Latin Small Letter J with Crossed-Tail
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Soft Dotted Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower