U+01C2 "ǂ" Latin Letter Alveolar Click Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01C2 "ǂ" Latin Letter Alveolar Click is a typographic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the voiceless alveolar lateral click, a distinctive sound found in languages such as Xhosa, Zulu, and !Xóõ. This character, which resembles a double-barred cross or an elongated asterisk, is written in Latin script to aid linguists and language learners in transcribing the click phoneme that is produced by pressing the tongue against the alveolar ridge and drawing it away sharply. While not commonly employed outside of phonetic or linguistic contexts, it plays a crucial role in accurately documenting and studying the sound systems of various African languages that utilize click consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01C2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Alveolar Click |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Letter Pipe Double Bar |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01c2 |