U+01AB "ƫ" Latin Small Letter T with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01AB "ƫ" Latin Small Letter T with Palatal Hook is a specialized phonetic symbol used primarily in historical or linguistic transcriptions, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), to represent a voiceless palatal plosive or a palatalized t sound. Its form is derived from a standard Latin lowercase 't' with a small hook or tail attached to the right side of the letter's descender, indicating a palatal articulation. This character is rarely encountered in modern standard orthographies but appears in some early 20th century phonetic texts and in certain African language transcriptions where it denotes a distinct consonantal sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01AB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter T with Palatal Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter T Palatal Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ƫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ƫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01ab |