U+AB57 "ꭗ" Latin Small Letter X with Long Left Leg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭗ
U+AB57 "ꭗ" Latin Small Letter X with Long Left Leg is a specialized typographic variant of the standard letter x, distinguished by an elongated left stroke that extends further downward or to the left, designed for use in phonetic transcription within the Latin Extended-E block. This character helps represent specific speech sounds or subtle linguistic distinctions that require a visual modification of the basic x glyph, enabling more precise notation in scholarly or linguistic contexts where standard characters are insufficient.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB57 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter X with Long Left Leg |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab57 |