U+02AD "ʭ" Latin Letter Bidental Percussive Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʭ
U+02AD "ʭ" Latin Letter Bidental Percussive is a typographic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent a specific rare speech sound, which is produced by percussively striking the upper and lower teeth together. This sound is typically not a phoneme in any natural language but is instead an extralinguistic or paralinguistic noise, sometimes occurring in certain speech pathologies or in the transcription of beatboxing or other vocal percussion. The character was added to Unicode as part of the IPA Extensions block and, being a bidental percussive, it denotes a manner of articulation where both sets of teeth are the active articulators.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02AD |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Letter Bidental Percussive |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02ad |