U+02BF "ʿ" Modifier Letter Left Half Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʿ
U+02BF "ʿ" Modifier Letter Left Half Ring is a diacritical mark used primarily in linguistic transcription to represent the Arabic letter ʿayn, a voiced pharyngeal fricative, but it also appears in other transliteration systems such as those for Semitic languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a secondary articulation or a glottalized sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02BF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Left Half Ring |
| Block | Spacing Modifier Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02bf |