U+2C6E "Ɱ" Latin Capital Letter M with Hook Unicode Character

U+2C6E "Ɱ" Latin Capital Letter M with Hook is a variant of the standard Latin letter M, distinguished by a small hook extending from the lower right side of the letterform. This character is primarily used in the orthography of certain African languages, such as Pular and some other Fula dialect writing systems, where it represents a voiced bilabial implosive sound, often transcribed as a b with a hook or a special bilabial stop. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the visually similar but separate character for a voiced bilabial implosive is,

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C6E
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter M with Hook
Block	Latin Extended-C
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ɱ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ɱ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C6E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C6E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c6e

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	"ɱ" U+0271 Latin Small Letter M with Hook
Lowercase Code Point	"ɱ" U+0271 Latin Small Letter M with Hook
Simple Case Folding	"ɱ" U+0271 Latin Small Letter M with Hook
Case Folding	"ɱ" U+0271 Latin Small Letter M with Hook
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ɱ" U+0271 Latin Small Letter M with Hook
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɱ" U+0271 Latin Small Letter M with Hook
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