U+A7CE "" Latin Capital Letter Pharyngeal Voiced Fricative Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A7CE "" Latin Capital Letter Pharyngeal Voiced Fricative is a typographic representation of a voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, which is a consonant produced by constricting the pharynx while the vocal cords vibrate. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Latin Extended-D block to support the orthographic needs of certain African languages, such as some varieties of Berber and Chadic languages, where this sound is phonemically distinct. Its lowercase counterpart is U+A7CF "" Latin Small Letter Pharyngeal Voiced Fricative, and the letter is visually derived from a reversed or modified capital Latin letter A to indicate its pharyngeal articulation. The inclusion of this character helps linguists and language communities accurately transcribe and digitally represent speech sounds that were previously difficult to encode with standard Latin letters.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
꟎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
꟎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0x9F 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA7CE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A7CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua7ce |
Unicode Properties