U+A7B2 "" Latin Capital Letter J with Crossed-Tail Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+A7B2 "" Latin Capital Letter J with Crossed-Tail is a distinctive glyph used in the orthography of some African languages, particularly for representing a voiced palatal implosive or a similar phonetic sound that standard Latin letters do not adequately capture. Its design features a capital J with a horizontal line or stroke crossing through the lower tail area, setting it apart from the regular J. This character was added to Unicode as part of the Latin Extended D block to support linguistic transcriptions and minority language writing systems, ensuring that specific phonetic distinctions can be accurately encoded in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point
U+A7B2
Name
Latin Capital Letter J with Crossed-Tail

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ʝ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ʝ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9E 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA7B2
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A7B2
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua7b2