U+2132 "Ⅎ" Turned Capital F Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2132 "Ⅎ" Turned Capital F is a typographic glyph that represents a rotated or flipped version of a standard uppercase F, historically used in some alphabets or notation systems rather than as a standard letter in modern languages. Its most notable application appears in the Claudian letters, a set of three characters introduced by the Roman emperor Claudius in the first century AD to simplify Latin spelling, where Ⅎ was intended to represent the consonantal sound /w/ or to distinguish between the vowel and consonant uses of the letter V. Although Claudius's reform was ultimately abandoned after his death, the turned F remains a unique relic of Roman linguistic experimentation, and today it is encoded in Unicode primarily for historical and academic purposes, including use in philology and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point U+2132
Version Added 1.1
Name Turned Capital F
Unicode 1.0 Name Turned F
Block Letterlike Symbols
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ⅎ
HTML Hex Encoding Ⅎ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x84 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2132
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002132
C/C++/Java Escape \u2132

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Uppercase Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point "ⅎ" U+214E Turned Small F
Lowercase Code Point "ⅎ" U+214E Turned Small F
Simple Case Folding "ⅎ" U+214E Turned Small F
Case Folding "ⅎ" U+214E Turned Small F
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ⅎ" U+214E Turned Small F
NFKC Simple Casefold "ⅎ" U+214E Turned Small F
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 Upper