U+214E "ⅎ" Turned Small F Unicode Character

U+214E "ⅎ" Turned Small F is a typographic glyph that represents a lowercase letter "f" rotated 180 degrees, primarily used in linguistic or phonetic notation to indicate a specific sound or to serve as a variant form in certain alphabets. It belongs to the Letterlike Symbols block of the Unicode standard and is distinct from the standard Latin "f" in both appearance and function, often appearing in historical or specialized typesetting contexts where reversed characters were employed for printing convenience or to denote derived sounds. This character is not commonly used in modern English orthography but remains available for precise scholarly or digital rendering needs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+214E
Version Added	5.0
Name	Turned Small F
Block	Letterlike Symbols
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⅎ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⅎ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x85 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x214E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000214E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u214e

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ⅎ" U+2132 Turned Capital F
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ⅎ" U+2132 Turned Capital F
Uppercase Code Point	"Ⅎ" U+2132 Turned Capital F
Titlecase Code Point	"Ⅎ" U+2132 Turned Capital F
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