U+AB53 "ꭓ" Latin Small Letter Chi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭓ
U+AB53 "ꭓ" Latin Small Letter Chi is a distinct lowercase form of the Greek letter chi (χ), specifically designed for use in the Latin script within the context of certain phonetic transcription systems, most notably the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It represents a voiceless uvular fricative sound or similar back-velar articulation, serving as a more precise typographic variant that avoids confusion with the standard Greek character when used alongside Latin letters in linguistic and scholarly texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB53 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Chi |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab53 |
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 | "Ꭓ" U+A7B3 Latin Capital Letter Chi |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭓ" U+A7B3 Latin Capital Letter Chi |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꭓ" U+A7B3 Latin Capital Letter Chi |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꭓ" U+A7B3 Latin Capital Letter Chi |
| 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 |