U+AB35 "ꬵ" Latin Small Letter Lenis F Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬵ
U+AB35 "ꬵ" Latin Small Letter Lenis F is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in phonetic transcription, specifically within the context of the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It represents a lenis, or lightly articulated, version of the voiceless labiodental fricative sound, which is softer or more relaxed than a typical "f". This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Latin Extended-E block to support precise linguistic documentation of certain Uralic languages, such as those spoken in the Sami or Finnic groups, where such fine phonetic distinctions are required for accurate representation and analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB35 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Lenis F |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB35 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB35 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab35 |