U+2C77 "ⱷ" Latin Small Letter Tailless Phi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⱷ
U+2C77 "ⱷ" Latin Small Letter Tailless Phi is a typographic variant of the Greek letter phi, distinguished by the removal of the distinctive descending tail or stroke that typically extends below the baseline in the standard small phi form. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-C block and is used primarily in phonetic transcription, particularly for representing a voiceless bilabial fricative sound in certain linguistic notations where a simpler shape is preferred. Its design resembles the uppercase Greek phi (Φ) but is scaled to lowercase size, offering a clear, tail-free alternative for specialized writing systems and scholarly documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C77 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Tailless Phi |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⱷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⱷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c77 |