Turned h with fishhook
Latin letter variant
ʮ (turned h with fishhook) is a symbol used in Sinological phonetic notation for a labialized syllabic fricative. It is often interpreted as a [z] with rounded lips, and treated as vowel-like in a syllable. Its counterpart with an additional tail ʯ (turned h with fishhook and tail) is treated as the retroflex equivalent, a vowel-like [ʐ] with rounded lips. One possible IPA notation would be [z̩ʷ] for ⟨ʮ⟩ and [ʐ̍ʷ] for ⟨ʯ⟩.
01Computer encoding
| Preview | ʮ | ʯ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H WITH FISHHOOK | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H WITH FISHHOOK AND TAIL | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 686 | U+02AE | 687 | U+02AF |
| UTF-8 | 202 174 | CA AE | 202 175 | CA AF |
| Numeric character reference | ʮ | ʮ | ʯ | ʯ |
Sources and credits
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- IPA Unicode 0x02AE.svg by Kwamikagami, CC BY-SA 4.0
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