U+0297 "ʗ" Latin Letter Stretched C Unicode Character

U+0297 "ʗ" Latin Letter Stretched C is a typographic symbol from the Latin Extended-B block, representing a phonetic notation and used historically in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a voiceless palatal click sound, though it has since been withdrawn from the official IPA standard. It visually resembles a standard uppercase "C" that has been elongated or stretched vertically, with a more narrow and tall appearance, and it is distinct from similar‑looking symbols like the open‑o letter or the Latin capital letter C. This character is primarily encountered in linguistic texts, old orthographies, or Afrikanist phonetic transcriptions, where it serves as a specialized diacritic or letter for representing certain click consonants in languages such as !Xóõ or other Khoisan languages.