U+02A7 "ʧ" Latin Small Letter Tesh Digraph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʧ
U+02A7 "ʧ" Latin Small Letter Tesh Digraph is a typographic ligature representing a single speech sound, specifically the voiceless postalveolar affricate, which is the sound of "ch" in the English word "church." This character is used in phonetic transcription and in the orthographies of some African languages to denote that distinct consonant sound. Its appearance combines the form of a lowercase "t" with a tail attached to a lowercase "eʃ" (the esh character for the "sh" sound), visually indicating its composite and affricate nature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02A7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Tesh Digraph |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter T Esh |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02a7 |