What ⅎ means
It was a Claudian letter for consonantal u. Latin V marked the consonant; u marked the vowel. “Digamma inversum” means “inverted digamma.”
Claudius’s reform was used in official Roman inscriptions during 47–54 CE, then mostly faded after his death. One later example is dated 60 CE. Inscriptions used capitals; lowercase ⅎ is a later scholarly transcription, not a regular modern Latin letter.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ⅎ 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 ⅎ
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 214E, then Alt+X to get ⅎ.
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 “turned small f”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 214e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ⅎCSS
\214ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ⅎ
HTML hex
ⅎ
CSS content
content: "\214E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%85%8E
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.