U+1F117 "🄗" Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter H Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F117 "🄗" Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter H is a typographic symbol belonging to the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, designed to represent the capital letter H enclosed within parentheses. It is part of a broader set of parenthesized Latin letters used primarily in linguistic notation, phonetic transcription, or decorative text formatting, where clear separation and emphasis of a single alphabetic character within a parenthetical boundary is desired. This character, encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, provides a standardized digital representation for contexts such as labeling, glosses, or educational materials that require a visually distinct and unambiguous parenthesized letter H.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F117 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter H |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "H" U+0048 Latin Capital Letter H ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🄗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🄗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x84 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F117 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd17 |