U+1DB2 "ᶲ" Modifier Letter Small Phi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᶲ
U+1DB2 "ᶲ" Modifier Letter Small Phi is a superscript form of the Greek letter phi, used primarily as a phonetic modifier in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It typically represents a voiceless bilabial fricative or indicates a modified articulation of a preceding or following sound in linguistic transcription. This character belongs to the Unicode block for phonetic extensions, allowing scholars and linguists to precisely denote subtle variations in pronunciation within digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DB2 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Small Phi |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions Supplement |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ɸ" U+0278 Latin Small Letter Phi |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᶲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DB2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DB2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1db2 |
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 | "ɸ" U+0278 Latin Small Letter Phi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɸ" U+0278 Latin Small Letter Phi |
| 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 |