U+A7AA "Ɦ" Latin Capital Letter H with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ɦ
U+A7AA "Ɦ" Latin Capital Letter H with Hook is a rarely used uppercase letter in the extended Latin script, designed primarily for phonetic transcription in certain African languages. It represents a voiced glottal fricative or a similar guttural sound, and it is the capital counterpart of the lowercase letter ɦ, which appears in the International Phonetic Alphabet. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and was added to support the orthographic needs of languages such as the Mỳene language of Gabon, where it helps standardize written representation distinct from other Latin letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7AA |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter H with Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7aa |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ɦ" U+0266 Latin Small Letter H with Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɦ" U+0266 Latin Small Letter H with Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɦ" U+0266 Latin Small Letter H with Hook |
| Case Folding | "ɦ" U+0266 Latin Small Letter H with Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɦ" U+0266 Latin Small Letter H with Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɦ" U+0266 Latin Small Letter H with Hook |
| 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 | Upper |