U+A7F8 "ꟸ" Modifier Letter Capital H with Stroke Unicode Character

U+A7F8 "ꟸ" Modifier Letter Capital H with Stroke is a typographic symbol used primarily in phonetic transcription systems, notably in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It represents a modifier letter derived from a capital H with a horizontal stroke through its ascender, indicating a specific sound modification or prosodic feature in linguistic notation. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is typically employed by scholars documenting Uralic languages such as Finnish, Hungarian, or Sami, where it can denote a voiceless or fricative quality. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across texts and databases for linguistic research and documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7F8
Version Added	6.1
Name	Modifier Letter Capital H with Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"Ħ" U+0126 Latin Capital Letter H with Stroke

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꟸ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꟸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9F 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7F8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7f8

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	"ħ" U+0127 Latin Small Letter H with Stroke
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ħ" U+0127 Latin Small Letter H with Stroke
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower