U+AB58 "ꭘ" Latin Small Letter X with Long Left Leg and Low Right Ring Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AB58 "ꭘ" Latin Small Letter X with Long Left Leg and Low Right Ring is a specialized glyph used primarily in phonetic transcription, specifically representing a particular sound in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. Its distinctive design features a lowercase letter X with an extended left leg that reaches downward, while a small ring is attached to the lower right side of the character. This notation system employs modified Latin letters to accurately describe the sounds of Uralic languages, and this particular character helps linguists denote a specific vocalic or consonantal quality without relying on diacritics that might interfere with legibility.

General Properties

Code Point U+AB58
Version Added 7.0
Name Latin Small Letter X with Long Left Leg and Low Right Ring
Block Latin Extended-E
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꭘ
HTML Hex Encoding ꭘ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAD 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAB58
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AB58
C/C++/Java Escape \uab58

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
Cased 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