Source: Noto Sans

U+0238 Latin Small Letter Db Digraph

U+0238 was added in Unicode version 4.1 in 2005. It belongs to the block U+0180 to U+024F Latin Extended-B in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0238 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The db ligature, ȸ, is a typographic ligature of Latin d and b, and used in Africanist linguistics for the transcription of certain African languages to represent [b̪], for example in the Zulu sequence [ɱȸv]. ȸ was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, as U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH. As of 2010, only a handful of fonts can display the character. These include Charis SIL, Code2000, Comic Sans, Doulos SIL, Ubuntu, and DejaVu fonts.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	568
UTF-8	C8 B8
UTF-16	02 38
UTF-32	00 00 02 38
URL-Quoted	%C8%B8
HTML hex reference	ȸ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	È¸
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 30 A9 33

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	4.1 (2005)
Unicode Name (na)	LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Latin Extended-B
General Category (gc)	Lowercase Letter
Script (sc)	Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Lowercase (Lower)	✔︎
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Uppercase (Upper)	✘︎
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Case Folding (cf)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘︎
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔︎
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘︎
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘︎
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘︎
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘︎
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘︎
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘︎
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘︎
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘︎
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘︎
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘︎
Cased (Cased)	✔︎
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘︎
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘︎
Dash (Dash)	✘︎
Deprecated (Dep)	✘︎
Diacritic (Dia)	✘︎
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘︎
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘︎
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘︎
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘︎
Emoji (Emoji)	✘︎
Extender (Ext)	✘︎
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘︎
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔︎
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘︎
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘︎
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘︎
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘︎
ID Continue (IDC)	✔︎
ID Start (IDS)	✔︎
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘︎
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘︎
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘︎
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘︎
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘︎
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘︎
Math (Math)	✘︎
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘︎
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘︎
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘︎
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘︎
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘︎
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘︎
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘︎
Other Math (OMath)	✘︎
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘︎
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘︎
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘︎
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘︎
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘︎
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘︎
Radical (Radical)	✘︎
Sentence Break (SB)	Lower
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘︎
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘︎
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘︎
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘︎
Variation Selector (VS)	✘︎
Word Break (WB)	Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)	✘︎
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔︎
XID Start (XIDS)	✔︎
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘︎
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘︎
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘︎
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘︎
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R