U+AB5C "ꭜ" Modifier Letter Small Heng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭜ
U+AB5C "ꭜ" Modifier Letter Small Heng is a superscript form of the Latin letter Heng, used primarily in phonetic transcription to indicate a modified or secondary articulation of a preceding sound. It belongs to the Latin Extended E block and is employed in certain scholarly notations for oral languages, often representing a breathy or fricative quality in the production of adjacent vowels or consonants. This character is distinct from its lowercase counterpart due to its elevated position and reduced size, serving as a diacritic-like modifier rather than a standalone letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB5C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Small Heng |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ꜧ" U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab5c |
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 | "ꜧ" U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꜧ" U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng |
| 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 |