U+0295 LATIN LETTER PHARYNGEAL VOICED FRICATIVE

ʕ

Reversed glottal stop shape, like a backwards question mark without the dot; IPA symbol for the voiced pharyngeal fricative, Arabic ain sound, also used in kaomoji bear faces.

Codepoint

U+0295

Name

LATIN LETTER PHARYNGEAL VOICED FRICATIVE

Block

IPA Extensions

Script

Latin

Category

Other Letter (Lo)

Unicode version

1.1

Plane

BMP

HTML

ʕ ʕ

CSS

\295

UTF-8

CA 95

UTF-16

0295

UTF-32

00000295

Also known as

reversed glottal stop

Related characters

• ʔU+0294LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
• ʖU+0296LATIN LETTER INVERTED GLOTTAL STOP
• ʓU+0293LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH CURL
• ʗU+0297LATIN LETTER STRETCHED C
• ʒU+0292LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH
• ʘU+0298LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK
• ʑU+0291LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CURL
• ʙU+0299LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL B
• ʐU+0290LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
• ʚU+029ALATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OPEN E
• ʏU+028FLATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Y
• ʛU+029BLATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G WITH HOOK