Bottom half o (smile)

Meaning and uses

A raised bottom half of an o from phonetic notation. In faces it reads as a small smiling mouth or a closed eye, as in ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶.

Unicode details

ᵕ is the Unicode character named MODIFIER LETTER SMALL BOTTOM HALF O, code point U+1D55, in the Phonetic Extensions block. It was added in Unicode 4.0 in 2003, and Unicode classes it as a modifier letter (general category Lm).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ᵕ

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 1D55 and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ᵕ.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “modifier letter small bottom half o”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 1d55, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ᵕ. In a CSS content property, use "\1D55".