U+1D9A "ᶚ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Retroflex Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1D9A "ᶚ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Retroflex Hook is a specialized phonetic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet extension to represent a voiced retroflex fricative, a sound produced by curling the tongue tip backward against the roof of the mouth while allowing air to flow turbulently through a narrow channel. This character combines the standard ezh symbol "ʒ", which itself denotes a voiced postalveolar fricative, with a retroflex hook diacritic to indicate the retracted tongue position inherent in the sound. It is part of the Latin Extended C block and is rarely encountered outside of detailed linguistic transcriptions or academic works on phonetics, particularly in the study of languages such as Swedish or certain dialects of Norwegian where this distinct fricative occurs. The character's design visually integrates the hook as a small curl attached to the lower right side of the ezh, making it distinct from similar letters like the standard retroflex zhe or other
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᶚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᶚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xB6 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1D9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001D9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1d9a |
Unicode Properties