ʯ

ʯ U+02AF, ʯ LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H WITH FISHHOOK AND TAIL ← ʮ [U+02AE] IPA Extensions ʰ → [U+02B0]

Translingual

Etymology

• Created by Karlgren, from ⟨ʮ⟩ plus a retroflex tail, which was originally a detail of italic typeface; Y. R. Chao made the tail a more pronounced hook to better match the IPA alphabet.

Symbol

ʯ

1. (phonetics) used as Sinologist linguistic symbol representing an apical retroflex rounded vowel

See also

Proposal to add five phonetic characters to the UCS