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Latin Letter Pharyngeal Voiced Fricative

U+0295
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character ʕ
Decimal ʕ
Hex ʕ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0295
Decimal
661
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Script
Latin
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
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Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

This is an IPA phonetic character. See its usage in the International Phonetic Alphabet. IpaLookup →

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Latin Letter Pharyngeal Voiced Fricative.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ʕ
HTML Hex
ʕ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
CA 95
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
02 95
UTF-32 Hex
00000295
CSS Escape
\295
JavaScript Escape
\u0295
Python Escape
\u0295
URL Encoded
%CA%95
Have a string containing this character? Decode it to see every codepoint. UnicodeDecoder →

Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Latin Letter Pharyngeal Voiced Fricative as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.