U+1D95 "ᶕ" Latin Small Letter Schwa with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1D95 "ᶕ" Latin Small Letter Schwa with Retroflex Hook is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the extended International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a mid central vowel sound that is articulated with the tongue tip curled back toward the palate, a feature known as retroflexion. This character combines the standard schwa, which is the neutral vowel found in unstressed syllables like the "a" in "about," with a retroflex hook diacritic that modifies its articulation to indicate a degree of retroflex quality in linguistic transcription. It is part of the IPA Extensions block in Unicode and is employed by linguists and speech pathologists to precisely document certain rhotic or retroflexed vowel sounds in languages and dialects where such distinctions are phonemically relevant, such as in some varieties of Chinese or in the transcription of certain North American Indigenous languages.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᶕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᶕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xB6 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1D95 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001D95 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1d95 |
Unicode Properties