U+0284 "ʄ" Latin Small Letter Dotless J with Stroke and Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0284 "ʄ" Latin Small Letter Dotless J with Stroke and Hook is a phonetic symbol primarily used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent a voiced palatal implosive, a speech sound produced by lowering the larynx and constricting the vocal tract with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate. Its design combines a lowercase dotless j with a horizontal stroke through the upper portion and a hook extending from the bottom, visually distinguishing it from similar characters like the standard j or the palatal approximant. This character is relatively rare but appears in the orthographies of some African and Indigenous languages, such as certain varieties of Fula, where it denotes a distinct consonantal sound. As a typographic variant, it requires explicit support from Unicode fonts to display correctly, as its unique combination of strokes and hooks may otherwise be misinterpreted or rendered as a simple j with diacritics.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ʄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ʄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xCA 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x0284 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00000284 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u0284 |
Unicode Properties