U+A795 "ꞕ" Latin Small Letter H with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꞕ
U+A795 "ꞕ" Latin Small Letter H with Palatal Hook is a rarely used glyph in the Latin script, formed by adding a palatal hook to the standard letter "h". It serves as a phonetic symbol in certain linguistic contexts, primarily within the extension of the International Phonetic Alphabet or in specialized orthographies designed for transcribing African languages, where the hook indicates a palatalized pronunciation. Despite its inclusion in Unicode’s Latin Extended-D block, this character is not commonly encountered in mainstream text, but it remains significant for precise phonetic representation and for preserving the typographic integrity of historical or scholarly documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A795 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter H with Palatal Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꞕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꞕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA795 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A795 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua795 |