U+01C1 "ǁ" Latin Letter Lateral Click Unicode Character

U+01C1 "ǁ" Latin Letter Lateral Click is a typographic representation of the lateral click speech sound found in languages such as !Xóõ, Zulu, and Xhosa, where it functions as a distinct consonant. It is encoded in the Latin Extended B block and is visually composed of two vertical parallel lines resembling a double pipe, which in some contexts can be mistaken for punctuation. This character is used primarily in linguistic transcriptions and orthographies for African languages to denote a sound produced by a clicking gesture made with the side of the tongue against the teeth or the roof of the mouth.