What ᶧ means
ᶧ marks a secondary barred-i element in phonetic transcription. Phonetic writers use raised modifiers like this for a less prominent on-glide or off-glide in a diphthong: one vowel sound that shifts from one vowel quality to another. The small-capital I is shaped like a reduced uppercase letter. This mark belongs to a transcription system, not ordinary spelling.
Bailey's 1985 manual English Phonetic Transcription documents an early barred-small-capital-i convention. A 2004 Unicode proposal notes that the full-size relative ᵻ has different readings in Americanist phonetic notation and Oxford dictionaries, so its reading depends on the source's transcription system.
How do I type ᶧ?
Enter ᶧ as its own character; a raised i is not equivalent. A modifier letter is a separate base character, not a combining stroke, so it does not attach itself to a neighboring letter. In TeX with TIPA, \ipabar{\textsci}{.5ex}{1.1}{}{} builds a barred small-capital I for a composed typesetting workflow.
Formal, specialist phonetic notation; unusual in ordinary writing unless the context defines it.
The stroke matters: ᶧ is not a styled lowercase i.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ᶧ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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