U+1DF12 "𝼒" Latin Small Letter Dezh Digraph with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1DF12 "𝼒" Latin Small Letter Dezh Digraph with Palatal Hook is a specialized phonetic symbol used in certain linguistic notations, particularly within the framework of the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced postalveolar affricate sound with a simultaneous palatalization, combining the "d" and "zh" components into a single glyph. This character resides in the Latin Extended-G block and was encoded to support the precise transcription of sounds in various languages and phonetic research, where the palatal hook diacritic indicates that the consonant is produced with the tongue raised toward the hard palate. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates digital documentation and analysis of these nuanced speech sounds, especially in fields like phonology and dialectology.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𝼒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𝼒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9D 0xBC 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD837 0xDF12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001DF12 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud837\udf12 |
Unicode Properties