U+1D97 "ᶗ" Latin Small Letter Open O with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1D97 "ᶗ" Latin Small Letter Open O with Retroflex Hook is a specialized phonetic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet extensions to represent a distinct vowel sound. It is based on the Latin small letter open o, which denotes an open-mid back rounded vowel, and adds a retroflex hook at the bottom right to indicate a retroflex articulation, where the tongue is curled back toward the postalveolar region. This character is primarily utilized in linguistic transcription to describe certain sounds in various languages that require a retroflex quality, and it belongs to the Phonetic Extensions Supplement block, supporting detailed phonetic notation for scholarly and research purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D97 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Open O with Retroflex Hook |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᶗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D97 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d97 |