U+0286 "ʆ" Latin Small Letter Esh with Curl Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʆ
U+0286 "ʆ" Latin Small Letter Esh with Curl is a phonetic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced palato-alveolar fricative with a retracted tongue root or a specifically curled articulation, distinguished from the standard esh character by a small curl or hook on its upper right stroke. It appears in certain phonetic transcriptions for languages with complex fricative systems, though it is rarely used in modern standard IPA notation and is considered an obsolete or highly specialized symbol. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Latin Extended B block, ensuring its digital representation for historical linguistic documentation and specialized academic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0286 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Esh with Curl |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Esh Curl |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0286 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000286 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0286 |