U+01C1 "ǁ" Latin Letter Lateral Click Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01C1 "ǁ" Latin Letter Lateral Click is a typographic representation of the lateral click speech sound found in languages such as !Xóõ, Zulu, and Xhosa, where it functions as a distinct consonant. It is encoded in the Latin Extended B block and is visually composed of two vertical parallel lines resembling a double pipe, which in some contexts can be mistaken for punctuation. This character is used primarily in linguistic transcriptions and orthographies for African languages to denote a sound produced by a clicking gesture made with the side of the tongue against the teeth or the roof of the mouth.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01C1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Lateral Click |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Letter Double Pipe |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01c1 |