U+0293 "ʓ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Curl Unicode Character

U+0293 "ʓ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Curl is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent a voiced palatal fricative, though it is considered obsolete or nonstandard in modern IPA usage, where the sound is typically transcribed with the letter "ʝ". This character is formed by taking a standard ezh (ʒ), which denotes a voiced postalveolar fricative, and adding a curl to its left side to indicate a palatal articulation. It belongs to the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode and is one of several curled variants designed for precise transcription of sibilant sounds in historical or specialized linguistic contexts.