U+01AA "ƪ" Latin Letter Reversed Esh Loop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01AA "ƪ" Latin Letter Reversed Esh Loop is a typographic symbol used primarily in historical and phonetic transcription contexts, particularly in the International Phonetic Alphabet for representing a voiced palatal or velar fricative in certain African languages. Its form resembles a reversed lowercase "esh" (ʃ) with an added loop, and it appears in older linguistic texts and orthographies, though it is now largely obsolete in modern standard IPA usage. This character is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, serving as a niche but important remnant of early efforts to systematically document diverse speech sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01AA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Reversed Esh Loop |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ƪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ƪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01aa |