U+01BA "ƺ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01BA "ƺ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Tail is a typographic variant of the standard ezh or yogh character, primarily used in phonetic transcription and some orthographies. Its distinct feature is a tail that descends below the baseline, often indicating a retroflex or other specialized articulation in the International Phonetic Alphabet, where it represents a voiced postalveolar fricative. This character is also employed in certain African languages and Romanizations of non-Latin scripts, serving as a diacritic-modified glyph to denote a sound distinct from its tail-less counterpart. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation for linguists and language preservation projects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01BA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Ezh with Tail |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Yogh with Tail |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ƺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ƺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01ba |