U+01C0 "ǀ" Latin Letter Dental Click Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01C0 "ǀ" Latin Letter Dental Click is a typographic representation of the dental click sound, one of several click consonants found in languages such as Xhosa and Zulu, where it is phonetically distinct and used to form meaningful words. This character appears as a simple vertical line and serves as a standalone letter in the Latin script, primarily employed by linguists and in orthographies for African languages to transcribe the sound made by the tongue pressing against the teeth and then being pulled away. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that the character can be consistently encoded, displayed, and exchanged across digital systems, preserving the accurate representation of linguistic diversity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01C0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Dental Click |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Letter Pipe |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01c0 |