U+02AC "ʬ" Latin Letter Bilabial Percussive Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+02AC "ʬ" Latin Letter Bilabial Percussive is a phonetic symbol used to represent a sound produced by bringing the two lips together sharply to create a percussive noise, essentially a lip smack, without any accompanying vocal cord vibration or airflow typical of standard speech sounds. It is part of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) extensions and is occasionally employed in the transcription of certain extralinguistic phenomena, such as the sounds used in beatboxing or in rare linguistic contexts where a bilabial percussive functions as a speech sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02AC |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Letter Bilabial Percussive |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02ac |