U+2C7C "ⱼ" Latin Subscript Small Letter J Unicode Character

U+2C7C "ⱼ" Latin Subscript Small Letter J is a typographic symbol used in certain phonetic and linguistic transcription systems to represent a subscript form of the letter J, often indicating a palatal or light glide sound in the context of diacritic notation. It belongs to the Latin Extended-C block and is encoded as a distinct character to allow for precise textual representation in digital environments where a simple subscript formatting might not be preserved. This character is particularly relevant in the study of phonetics and historical linguistics, where it serves as a modifier for base letters to denote secondary articulation or as a part of specialized orthographies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C7C
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Subscript Small Letter J
Block	Latin Extended-C
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Sub
Decomposition Mapping	"j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ⱼ
HTML Hex Encoding	ⱼ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C7C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C7C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c7c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Other Lowercase	Yes
Case Ignorable	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J
NFKC Simple Casefold	"j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Soft Dotted	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower