U+A78C "ꞌ" Latin Small Letter Saltillo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꞌ
U+A78C "ꞌ" Latin Small Letter Saltillo is a glyph used in the orthography of several indigenous languages of the Americas, most notably in the Mixe and some Zapotecan languages. It represents a glottal stop, a consonant sound produced by a brief closure of the vocal cords, and is distinct from punctuation marks like the apostrophe. This character is part of the Latin Extended D block and was specifically encoded to provide a standardized representation for writing systems that require a dedicated small letter for this phoneme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A78C |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Saltillo |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꞌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꞌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA78C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A78C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua78c |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ꞌ" U+A78B Latin Capital Letter Saltillo |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꞌ" U+A78B Latin Capital Letter Saltillo |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꞌ" U+A78B Latin Capital Letter Saltillo |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꞌ" U+A78B Latin Capital Letter Saltillo |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 |