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Glyph for U+1DF0A
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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 U+1DF00 to U+1DFFF Latin Extended-G in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

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 ΗƒKung 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 ⟨𝼊⟩. However, usage is rare. In the literature, retroflex clicks are typically written with the ad hoc digraph βŸ¨β€ΌβŸ©, the convention since Doke identified them as retroflex in 1925. (Doke's proposed symbol, ⟨ψ⟩, did not catch on, though it has IPA support for historical transcription, nor did Vedder's and Anders' βŸ¨β¦€βŸ©. For a while Amanda Miller, who noted a lateral fricated release (as had Vedder), transcribed them βŸ¨Ηƒπž·βŸ©.)

Retroflex clicks are extraordinarily rare. True retroflex clicks occur in at least some dialects of Central ΗƒKung. They are reconstructed for the Proto-KxΚΌa language and tentatively for Proto-Khoe–Kwadi. The Damin ritual jargon of Australia may have had a voiced nasal retroflex click, transcribed by Hale & Nash as ⟨rn!⟩, 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΅‘ΗƒΜ ] (⟨rn!⟩) vs a more fronted apical [α΅‘ΗƒΜͺ] (⟨n!⟩).

Basic retroflex clicks are:

Representations

System Representation
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 𝼊
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 94 35 A8 38

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 14.0 (2021)
Unicode Name (na) LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
Unicode 1 Name (na1) β€”
Block (blk) Latin_Ext_G
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) βœ”
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) βœ”
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) βœ”
ID Start (IDS) βœ”
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) β€”
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) β€”
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) βœ”
XID Start (XIDS) βœ”
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) β€”
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+1DF0A Latin Letter Retroflex Click with Retroflex Hook
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R