U+AB67 "ꭧ" Latin Small Letter Ts Digraph with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AB67 "ꭧ" Latin Small Letter Ts Digraph with Retroflex Hook is a specialized phonetic letter used in certain linguistic transcriptions, particularly within the context of Uralic and other language documentation, to represent a retroflex affricate sound, similar to a combined 't' and 's' pronounced with the tongue curled back against the palate. This character is part of the Latin Extended-E block and was added to the Unicode Standard to support precise scholarly notation of retroflex consonants, which are common in languages such as Sanskrit, Mandarin Chinese, and various indigenous languages of India and Australia. The retroflex hook attached to the base of the digraph distinguishes this sound from its non-retroflex counterpart, allowing linguists and phonologists to accurately denote subtle phonetic distinctions in written form.

General Properties

Code Point U+AB67
Version Added 12.0
Name Latin Small Letter Ts Digraph with Retroflex Hook
Block Latin Extended-E
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꭧ
HTML Hex Encoding ꭧ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAD 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAB67
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AB67
C/C++/Java Escape \uab67

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