U+2C7D "ⱽ" Modifier Letter Capital V Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2C7D "ⱽ" Modifier Letter Capital V is a small superscript version of a capital V, designed for use in phonetic transcription systems, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet or extended Latin orthographies. Its primary function is to indicate a modification of the preceding or following sound, often suggesting a voiced labiodental approximant or serving as a diacritic-like mark to denote vowel length or quality shifts. This character sits at the modifier letter height, allowing it to attach unobtrusively to base letters without altering line spacing, and it is most commonly employed in scholarly linguistic texts to provide precise phonetic detail for languages where a full-size uppercase V would be inappropriate or confusing in running text.

General Properties

Code Point U+2C7D
Version Added 5.1
Name Modifier Letter Capital V
Block Latin Extended-C
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping "V" U+0056 Latin Capital Letter V

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⱽ
HTML Hex Encoding ⱽ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB1 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2C7D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002C7D
C/C++/Java Escape \u2c7d

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 "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V
NFKC Simple Casefold "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V
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