U+02A8 "ʨ" Latin Small Letter Tc Digraph with Curl Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʨ
U+02A8 "ʨ" Latin Small Letter Tc Digraph with Curl is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate consonant, a sound produced by a brief complete closure at the roof of the mouth followed by a narrow fricative release, similar to the "ch" in the English word "cheese" but with the tongue positioned slightly farther forward. This character combines a "t" and a "c" shape with a distinctive curl at the top, signifying its palatalized articulation, and is employed by linguists and speech scientists to transcribe certain sounds found in languages such as Mandarin Chinese or Polish.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02A8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Tc Digraph with Curl |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter T C Curl |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02a8 |