U+0293 Latin Small Letter Ezh with Curl
U+0293 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0293 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The palatal hook (◌̡) is a type of hook diacritic formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent palatalized consonants. It is a small, leftwards-facing hook joined to the bottom-right side of a letter, and is distinguished from various other hooks indicating retroflexion, etc. Theoretically, it could be used on all IPA consonant letters except for those for palatal consonants, but it is not attested on all of the IPA letters of its era. It was withdrawn by the IPA in 1989, in favour of a superscript j following the consonant (i.e., ⟨ƫ⟩ becomes ⟨tʲ⟩).
The IPA recommended that esh ⟨ʃ⟩ and ezh ⟨ʒ⟩ not use the palatal hook, but instead get special curled symbols: ⟨ʆ⟩ and ⟨ʓ⟩. However, versions with the hook have also been used and are supported by Unicode.
Palatal hooks are also used for Lithuanian dialectology in the Lithuanian Phonetic Transcription System (or Lithuanian Phonetic Alphabet), including the unusual letter ꞔ, which is not a c plus palatal hook but a graphic variant of ᶃ.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 659 |
UTF-8 | CA 93 |
UTF-16 | 02 93 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 02 93 |
URL-Quoted | %CA%93 |
HTML hex reference | ʓ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ê“ |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni0293 |
Adobe Glyph List | ezhcurl |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH CURL | |
LATIN SMALL LETTER YOGH CURL | |
IPA Extensions | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Latin | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Lower | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |