U+1DEA "ᷪ" Combining Latin Small Letter Schwa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1DEA "ᷪ" Combining Latin Small Letter Schwa is a diacritical mark used in some phonetic or orthographic systems to modify a base letter, typically to indicate a schwa sound or a reduced vowel quality. This combining character is designed to be placed above or in conjunction with another character, such as a Latin letter, to denote a specific pronunciation or tone in linguistic transcription, particularly in scholarly works like those for African or minority languages. It appears as a small, superscript-like symbol representing the schwa vowel, and its addition to text requires a base character that supports combining marks for proper rendering.

General Properties

Code Point U+1DEA
Version Added 7.0
Name Combining Latin Small Letter Schwa
Block Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Above
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᷪ
HTML Hex Encoding ᷪ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB7 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1DEA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001DEA
C/C++/Java Escape \u1dea

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Inherited
Script Extensions Inherited
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend