U+0293 "ʓ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Curl Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0293 "ʓ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Curl is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent a voiced palatal fricative, though it is considered obsolete or nonstandard in modern IPA usage, where the sound is typically transcribed with the letter "ʝ". This character is formed by taking a standard ezh (ʒ), which denotes a voiced postalveolar fricative, and adding a curl to its left side to indicate a palatal articulation. It belongs to the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode and is one of several curled variants designed for precise transcription of sibilant sounds in historical or specialized linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0293 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Ezh with Curl |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Yogh Curl |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0293 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000293 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0293 |