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A modifier letter, in the Unicode Standard, is a letter or symbol typically written next to another letter that it modifies in some way. They generally function like diacritics , changing the sound-values of the letter it is next to (usually the letter preceding it but sometimes the following letter instead).
Modifier letter small turned w Used in linguistic transcriptions of Scots [34] ꭖ X with low right ring Teuthonista [4] ꭗ X with long left leg ꭘ X with long left leg and low right ring ꭙ X with long left leg with serif ꭙ̆: X with long left leg with serif and breve The reference does not cite this letter and diacritic combination ...
Modifier Letter Small J U+02B3 xʳ ʳ Modifier Letter Small R U+02B4 xʴ ʴ Modifier Letter Small Turned R U+02B5 xʵ ʵ Modifier Letter Small Turned R with hook U+02B6 xʶ ʶ Modifier Letter Small Capital Inverted R U+02B7 xʷ ʷ Modifier Letter Small W U+02B8 xʸ ʸ Modifier Letter Small Y Miscellaneous phonetic modifiers
The modifier letter turned comma ʻ is a character found in Unicode resembling a comma that has been turned.Unlike a comma, it is a letter, not a piece of punctuation.It is used in a number of Polynesian alphabets as the letter ʻokina to represent the glottal stop, and in the Uzbek alphabet to form the letters Oʻ and Gʻ, which correspond to Ў and Ғ respectively in the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet.
The characters in the "Spacing Modifier Letters" block are intended as forming a unity with the preceding letter (which they "modify"). E.g. the character U+02B0 ʰ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H isn't intended simply as a superscript h (h), but as the mark of aspiration placed after the letter being aspirated, as in pʰ "aspirated voiceless bilabial ...
The modifier letter left half ring ʿ is a character found in Unicode in the Spacing Modifier Letters range (although it is not a modifier, but a standalone grapheme). [1]
Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters.It also contains the character "Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single grapheme in a given context.
The release of Emoji 5.0 in May 2017 [6] considers these characters to be emoji for use as modifiers in special sequences. The only usage specified is for representing the flags of regions, alongside the use of Regional Indicator Symbols for national flags. [ 7 ]