U+1E29 "ḩ" Latin Small Letter H with Cedilla Unicode Character

U+1E29 "ḩ" Latin Small Letter H with Cedilla is a modified version of the standard Latin letter H, distinguished by a small cedilla mark placed beneath it. This character is primarily used in the transliteration of Semitic languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, where it represents a voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the "H" in the English word "aha" but produced deeper in the throat. It is also employed in some African orthographies, like those for the Hausa language, to denote a distinct consonantal sound. The cedilla diacritic signals that the letter should be pronounced with a constriction in the pharynx, rather than as a simple aspirated H.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E29
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter H with Cedilla
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"h" U+0068 Latin Small Letter H "̧" U+0327 Combining Cedilla

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ḩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ḩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB8 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E29
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E29
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e29

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ḩ" U+1E28 Latin Capital Letter H with Cedilla
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ḩ" U+1E28 Latin Capital Letter H with Cedilla
Uppercase Code Point	"Ḩ" U+1E28 Latin Capital Letter H with Cedilla
Titlecase Code Point	"Ḩ" U+1E28 Latin Capital Letter H with Cedilla
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower