U+0285 "ʅ" Latin Small Letter Squat Reversed Esh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʅ
U+0285 "ʅ" Latin Small Letter Squat Reversed Esh is a typographic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced retroflex fricative, a sound produced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth. It resembles a reversed and shortened version of the standard esh character "ʃ", which itself denotes a voiceless postalveolar fricative. This character appears in linguistic transcriptions for languages such as Mandarin Chinese, where it represents a similar sound in syllables like "shi", and is part of the extended Latin script block in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0285 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Squat Reversed Esh |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0285 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000285 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0285 |