U+02A2 "ʢ" Latin Letter Reversed Glottal Stop with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʢ
U+02A2 "ʢ" Latin Letter Reversed Glottal Stop with Stroke is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced epiglottal trill, a sound produced by vibration of the aryepiglottic folds in the larynx. It is a typographic variant of the glottal stop symbol, distinguished by its reversed orientation and a horizontal stroke through the main stem, which indicates its voicing and trilled articulation. This character is useful in the transcription of certain languages, such as some dialects of Arabic and the Caucasian languages, where this rare speech sound occurs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02A2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Reversed Glottal Stop with Stroke |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Letter Reversed Glottal Stop Bar |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02a2 |