Db ligature
Ligature of letters D and B
The db ligature, ȸ, is a typographic ligature of Latin d and b, and is used in Africanist linguistics for the transcription of certain African languages to represent [b̪], for example in the Zulu sequence [ɱȸv]. ȸ was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, as U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH. As of 2010, only a handful of fonts can display the character. These include Charis SIL, Code2000, Doulos SIL, Ubuntu, and DejaVu fonts.
01Unicode character
| Preview | ȸ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 568 | U+0238 |
| UTF-8 | 200 184 | C8 B8 |
| Numeric character reference | ȸ | ȸ |
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