U+0290 "ʐ" Latin Small Letter Z with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0290 "ʐ" Latin Small Letter Z with Retroflex Hook is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced retroflex sibilant fricative, a sound articulated with the tongue curled back against the hard palate. It resembles a lowercase "z" with a hook extending from its lower right side, and it appears in the transcription of languages such as Mandarin Chinese, where it denotes a retroflex "z" sound, and in some Slavic languages like Polish and Russian for certain dialectal or historical pronunciations. This character is part of the IPA Extensions block in Unicode and was encoded to provide a standardized representation for linguists and phoneticians studying the world's diverse speech sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0290 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Z with Retroflex Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Z Retroflex Hook |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0290 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000290 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0290 |