U+02BD "ʽ" Modifier Letter Reversed Comma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʽ
U+02BD "ʽ" Modifier Letter Reversed Comma is a small raised glyph that resembles a leftward-facing apostrophe or a reversed single quotation mark, used primarily in phonetic transcription and some orthographies. It functions as a diacritic to indicate a specific type of glottal or pharyngeal articulation, often representing a voiced pharyngeal fricative or an ejective-like release in the International Phonetic Alphabet, while also appearing in Latin-based writing systems for certain languages like Hausa and the N'Ko script to denote modifications in tone or consonant quality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02BD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Reversed Comma |
| Block | Spacing Modifier Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02bd |