U+2094 "ₔ" Latin Subscript Small Letter Schwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ₔ
U+2094 "ₔ" Latin Subscript Small Letter Schwa is a typographic glyph used in phonetic transcription to represent a reduced, mid-central vowel sound, specifically the schwa, in a subscript format. This character is part of the Latin Extended-C block and is primarily employed in linguistic contexts, such as in the transcription of certain African or Indigenous languages, to denote a weak or unstressed vowel that appears below the baseline.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2094 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Subscript Small Letter Schwa |
| Block | Superscripts and Subscripts |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Sub |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ₔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ₔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x82 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2094 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002094 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2094 |
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 | "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| 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 |