U+02A7 "ʧ" Latin Small Letter Tesh Digraph Unicode Character

U+02A7 "ʧ" Latin Small Letter Tesh Digraph is a typographic ligature representing a single speech sound, specifically the voiceless postalveolar affricate, which is the sound of "ch" in the English word "church." This character is used in phonetic transcription and in the orthographies of some African languages to denote that distinct consonant sound. Its appearance combines the form of a lowercase "t" with a tail attached to a lowercase "eʃ" (the esh character for the "sh" sound), visually indicating its composite and affricate nature.