U+0256 Latin Small Letter D with Tail
U+0256 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block IPA Extensions in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter African D and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter African D. The character is also known as d retroflex hook.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0256 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
African D (Ɖ, ɖ) is a Latin letter representing the voiced retroflex plosive [ɖ]. It is a part of the African reference alphabet. It is mainly used by African languages such as Ewe, Fon, Aja, and Bassa. The African D should not be confused with either the eth (Ð, ð) of Icelandic, Faroese and Old English or with the D with stroke (Đ, đ) of Vietnamese, Serbo-Croatian and Sami languages. However, the upper-case forms of these letters tend to look the same.
The lower-case variant (ɖ, known as retroflex D, D with tail, or D with retroflex hook) is used to represent the voiced retroflex plosive in the International Phonetic Alphabet (but in the transcription of the languages of India, the same sound may be represented by a d with dot below: ḍ).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 598 |
| UTF-8 | C9 96 |
| UTF-16 | 02 56 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 56 |
| URL-Quoted | %C9%96 |
| HTML hex reference | ɖ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | É– |
| alias | d retroflex hook |
| LATEX | \Elzrtld |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni0256 |
| Adobe Glyph List | dtail |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH TAIL | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER D RETROFLEX HOOK | |
| IPA Extensions | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Latin Small Letter D with Tail | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter D with Tail | |
| Latin Small Letter D with Tail | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter African D | |
| Latin Capital Letter African D | |
| Latin Capital Letter African D | |
| Latin Capital Letter African D | |
| Latin Small Letter D with Tail | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter D with Tail | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter D with Tail | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter D with Tail | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter D with Tail | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter D with Tail | |
| R |