U+1D8B "ᶋ" Latin Small Letter Esh with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᶋ
U+1D8B "ᶋ" Latin Small Letter Esh with Palatal Hook is a phonetic extension symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet and related transcription systems to represent a palatalized voiceless postalveolar fricative sound. It combines the standard esh character, which denotes a voiceless postalveolar fricative like the "sh" in "ship," with a hook that signals palatalization, meaning the tongue is raised toward the hard palate during articulation. This character is part of the Latin Extended-E block and serves to provide precise notation for certain speech sounds found in languages such as some dialects of Irish or in linguistic field notes, though it is not commonly used in standard orthographies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D8B |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Esh with Palatal Hook |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᶋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d8b |