U+1D98 "ᶘ" Latin Small Letter Esh with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᶘ
U+1D98 "ᶘ" Latin Small Letter Esh with Retroflex Hook is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet extension for representing a voiced retroflex fricative. This character combines the standard lowercase esh, which typically denotes a palato-alveolar sound, with a retroflex hook attached to its lower right to indicate articulation with the tongue curled back toward the hard palate. It appears in linguistic transcription systems for certain languages and dialectology to capture specific sibilant sounds that differ from their non retroflex counterparts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D98 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Esh 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 | ᶘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᶘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB6 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d98 |