U+209C "ₜ" Latin Subscript Small Letter T Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+209C "ₜ" Latin Subscript Small Letter T is a typographic glyph used primarily in phonetic and linguistic notation, specifically as part of the International Phonetic Alphabet's superscript and subscript diacritic system to denote a raised or lowered articulation of a sound, though it is not a standard IPA symbol itself. It appears in the "Superscripts and Subscripts" block of Unicode, encoded for compatibility with legacy character sets and to support scientific transcription where a subscript t is needed, such as in certain orthographies or in phonetic detail work. Visually, it is a smaller version of the letter "t" positioned below the baseline, and it can be combined with other characters to indicate a specific phonetic feature or to represent a homorganic nasal or a tonal mark in some African languages. Its inclusion ensures that digital text can accurately reproduce specialized scholarly and linguistic material without relying on formatting tricks.

General Properties

Code Point U+209C
Version Added 6.0
Name Latin Subscript Small Letter T
Block Superscripts and Subscripts
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Sub
Decomposition Mapping "t" U+0074 Latin Small Letter T

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ₜ
HTML Hex Encoding ₜ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x82 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x209C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000209C
C/C++/Java Escape \u209c

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 "t" U+0074 Latin Small Letter T
NFKC Simple Casefold "t" U+0074 Latin Small Letter T
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