U+1DF18 "𝼘" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1DF18 "𝼘" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Palatal Hook is a specialized phonetic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced palatal fricative, a sound produced by constricting airflow at the palate while vibrating the vocal cords, effectively combining the shape of the letter ezh with a palatal hook to indicate its articulation. This character was added to the Unicode standard in version 14.0 in 2021 as part of a larger expansion of phonetic extensions to support more precise transcription of human speech in linguistics and language documentation. Its inclusion helps scholars accurately represent certain sounds found in languages like some Slavic and Uralic languages, where a palatalized voiced fricative is a distinct phoneme.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𝼘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𝼘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9D 0xBC 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD837 0xDF18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001DF18 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud837\udf18 |
Unicode Properties