U+0284 "ʄ" Latin Small Letter Dotless J with Stroke and Hook Unicode Character

U+0284 "ʄ" Latin Small Letter Dotless J with Stroke and Hook is a phonetic symbol primarily used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent a voiced palatal implosive, a speech sound produced by lowering the larynx and constricting the vocal tract with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate. Its design combines a lowercase dotless j with a horizontal stroke through the upper portion and a hook extending from the bottom, visually distinguishing it from similar characters like the standard j or the palatal approximant. This character is relatively rare but appears in the orthographies of some African and Indigenous languages, such as certain varieties of Fula, where it denotes a distinct consonantal sound. As a typographic variant, it requires explicit support from Unicode fonts to display correctly, as its unique combination of strokes and hooks may otherwise be misinterpreted or rendered as a simple j with diacritics.