U+0270 "ɰ" Latin Small Letter Turned M with Long Leg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ɰ
U+0270 "ɰ" Latin Small Letter Turned M with Long Leg is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the voiced velar approximant, a consonant sound produced by bringing the back of the tongue close to the soft palate without creating friction. Its visual design is based on a rotated lowercase 'm', featuring an extended right leg that distinguishes it from similar symbols like the turned m without a long leg. This character is essential in linguistic transcription for languages such as Japanese, where it occurs as an allophone of /g/ in certain contexts, and in the accurate notation of speech sounds in fields like phonetics and dialectology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0270 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Turned M with Long Leg |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ɰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ɰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0270 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000270 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0270 |