U+025A "ɚ" Latin Small Letter Schwa with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+025A "ɚ" Latin Small Letter Schwa with Hook is a phonetic symbol that represents a rhotacized schwa sound, which is a mid central vowel combined with an r colored quality. It is primarily used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote the unstressed vowel sound found in many rhotic dialects of English, such as the final vowel in the word "butter" or "letter." The hook attached to the standard schwa "ə" indicates the retroflex or rhotic articulation, making it distinct from a plain schwa. This character is essential for linguists and language learners transcribing the exact pronunciation of certain American and British English dialects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+025A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Schwa with Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Schwa Hook |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ɚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ɚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x025A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000025A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u025a |