U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
U+1DF0A was added in Unicode version 14.0 in 2021. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other 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+1DF0A forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The retroflex clicks are a family of click consonants known only from the Central ΗKung language or dialect of Namibia. They are sub-apical retroflex and should not be confused with the more widespread postalveolar clicks, which are sometimes mistakenly called "retroflex" (for example in Unicode) due to their concave tongue shape.
The 'implicit' symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the forward articulation of these sounds is β¨πΌβ©. However, usage is rare. In the literature, retroflex clicks are typically written with the ad hoc digraph β¨βΌβ©, the convention since Doke identified them as retroflex in 1926. (Doke's proposed symbol, β¨Οβ©, did not catch on, nor did Vedder's and Anders' β¨β¦β©. For a while Amanda Miller, who noted a lateral fricated release (as had Vedder), transcribed them β¨Ηπ·β©.)
Retroflex clicks are extraordinarily rare. True retroflex clicks occur in at least some dialects of Central ΗKung. The Damin ritual jargon of Australia may have had a voiced nasal retroflex click, transcribed by Hale & Nash as β¨rn!β©, though it's not known if it was phonemically distinct. However, Damin clicks presumably reflected the consonant articulations of Lardil, in which the "retroflex" consonants are retracted apical alveolar rather than true retroflex, so it is likely that the Damin distinction could be described as post-alveolar apical [α΅ΗΜ ] (β¨rn!β©) vs a more fronted apical [α΅ΗΜͺ] (β¨n!β©).
Basic retroflex clicks are:
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 122634 |
UTF-8 | F0 9D BC 8A |
UTF-16 | D8 37 DF 0A |
UTF-32 | 00 01 DF 0A |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9D%BC%8A |
HTML hex reference | 𝼊 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΒΒΌΕ |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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14.0 (2021) | |
LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK | |
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Latin_Ext_G | |
Other Letter | |
Latin | |
Left To Right | |
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Any | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
β | |
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Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
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β | |
β | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
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β | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
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