U+2C75 "Ⱶ" Latin Capital Letter Half H Unicode Character

U+2C75 "Ⱶ" Latin Capital Letter Half H is a historical typographic symbol representing the left half of the uppercase letter H, used in medieval Latin manuscripts and early modern writing systems as a scribal abbreviation for various words, such as "haec" or "hoc," or as a phonetic notation in some early linguistics. It is classified under the Latin Extended-C block and is visually distinct from the full H, featuring only the left vertical stroke and the left side of the crossbar. This character is rarely used in modern text but is preserved for digital representation of historical documents and scholarly transcription work.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C75
Version Added	5.0
Name	Latin Capital Letter Half H
Block	Latin Extended-C
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⱶ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⱶ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C75
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C75
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c75

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	"ⱶ" U+2C76 Latin Small Letter Half H
Lowercase Code Point	"ⱶ" U+2C76 Latin Small Letter Half H
Simple Case Folding	"ⱶ" U+2C76 Latin Small Letter Half H
Case Folding	"ⱶ" U+2C76 Latin Small Letter Half H
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ⱶ" U+2C76 Latin Small Letter Half H
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ⱶ" U+2C76 Latin Small Letter Half H
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