U+A7B2 Latin Capital Letter J with Crossed-Tail
U+A7B2 was added in Unicode version 8.0 in 2015. It belongs to the block
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its lowercase variant is
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+A7B2 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The voiced palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) that represents this sound is ⟨ʝ⟩ (crossed-tail j), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is
j
. It is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant.In broad transcription, the symbol for the palatal approximant, ⟨j⟩, may be used for the sake of simplicity.
The voiced palatal fricative is a very rare sound, occurring in only 7 of the 317 languages surveyed by the original UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. In Dutch, Kabyle, Margi, Modern Greek, and Scottish Gaelic, the sound occurs phonemically, along with its voiceless counterpart, and in several more, the sound occurs as a result of phonological processes.
To produce this sound, the tip of the tongue is placed against the roof of the mouth behind the upper front teeth; then, while exhaling, the space between the tongue and the palate is narrowed, creating a friction-like sound similar to the ⟨s⟩ sound (IPA: [ʒ]) in the English word leisure.
There is also the voiced post-palatal fricative in some languages, which is articulated slightly more back compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical voiced palatal fricative but not as back as the prototypical voiced velar fricative. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for that sound, but it can be transcribed as ⟨ʝ̠⟩, ⟨ʝ˗⟩ (both symbols denote a retracted ⟨ʝ⟩), ⟨ɣ̟⟩ or ⟨ɣ˖⟩ (both symbols denote an advanced ⟨ɣ⟩). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are
j\_-
andG_+
, respectively.Especially in broad transcription, the voiced post-palatal fricative may be transcribed as a palatalized voiced velar fricative (⟨ɣʲ⟩ in the IPA,
G'
orG_j
in X-SAMPA).
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 42930 |
UTF-8 | EA 9E B2 |
UTF-16 | A7 B2 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 A7 B2 |
URL-Quoted | %EA%9E%B2 |
HTML hex reference | Ʝ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | êž² |
AGL: Latin-5 | uniA7B2 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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8.0 (2015) | |
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J WITH CROSSED-TAIL | |
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Latin Extended-D | |
Uppercase Letter | |
Latin | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
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✘ | |
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✔ | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
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Upper | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
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not a number | |
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R |