What ᴭ means
Its height carries phonetic meaning, not emphasis.
The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) and Finno-Ugric transcription (FUT) record sounds in Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian.
This notation was designed to capture fine differences in speech, rather than to style ordinary writing.
How do I type ᴭ?
Use hexadecimal Unicode input or an HTML character reference.
In an editor that supports hexadecimal Unicode input, enter 1D2D. In HTML, use ᴭ.
Styling ordinary Æ as superscript may look similar, but it remains a different character value; formatting alone does not produce ᴭ.
Specialist phonetic notation; the raised shape records a sound detail.
NFKC can convert ᴭ to Æ and erase the raised distinction.
Who writes ᴭ
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Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why did ᴭ become Æ?
NFKC compatibility normalization can map ᴭ to Æ, removing the raised distinction from the character value. NFKC is a Unicode text-normalization form that converts some compatibility characters to simpler equivalents.
How to type or find ᴭ
- Search it as
- superscript AE · raised AE · Uralic phonetic alphabet · UPA · Finno-Ugric transcription · FUT · phonetic notation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ᴭ\1D2D1D2D in an editor's hexadecimal Unicode input, if supported.ᴭ in HTML.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.



