U+1DAF "ᶯ" Modifier Letter Small N with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᶯ
U+1DAF "ᶯ" Modifier Letter Small N with Retroflex Hook is a diacritical mark used primarily in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and related notation systems, to represent a retroflex nasal sound. Its glyph combines a small lowercase "n" with a retroflex hook attached to the bottom right, indicating that the tongue is curled back toward the palate during articulation. This character is typically employed as a modifier to denote a nasal release or a nasalized segment with retroflexion, often appearing in transcriptions of languages such as Hindi, Swedish, or other speech varieties that feature retroflex consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DAF |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Small N with Retroflex Hook |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions Supplement |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ɳ" U+0273 Latin Small Letter N with Retroflex Hook |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᶯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1daf |