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modifier letter small h with hook

Modifier Letter Small H with Hook

ʱ marks breathy voice in phonetic writing: the voice continues as air passes softly through the throat. It is the modifier-sized counterpart of ɦ, the full-sized hooked h for a voiced, breathy throat sound.

Text symbol

Search it as: breathy voice IPA · murmured voice mark · IPA breathy modifier · modifier ʱ
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ʱ means

Place ʱ after the sound whose voice quality is breathy. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system for writing speech sounds. The modifier marks that quality; it does not add a separate h sound.

Don't confuse it with

Modifier Letter Small H

ʰ has no hook and marks aspiration, an extra puff of air after a consonant; ʱ has a hook and marks breathy voicing, with the voice continuing as air escapes.

Questions people ask

Why does ʱ 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.

How to type ʱ

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 02B1, then Alt+X to get ʱ.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “modifier letter small h with hook”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 02b1, then Enter or Space.

HTML

ʱ

CSS

\02B1

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

HTML hex

CSS content

content: "\02B1";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%CA%B1

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Accents & marks659 symbols

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