U+0295 LATIN LETTER PHARYNGEAL VOICED FRICATIVE

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Decimal / Nº
661
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+0295, officially named LATIN LETTER PHARYNGEAL VOICED FRICATIVE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the IPA Ext block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as LATIN LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Latin script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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661 Copied!
UTF-8 CA 95 Copied!
UTF-16 02 95 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 02 95 Copied!
URL-Quoted %CA%95 Copied!
HTML hex reference ʕ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'0295' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u0295 Copied!
C and C++ \u0295 Copied!
C# \u0295 Copied!
CSS \000295 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(661) Copied!
Go \u0295 Copied!
JavaScript \u0295 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{0295} Copied!
JSON \u0295 Copied!
Java \u0295 Copied!
Lua \u{0295} Copied!
Matlab char(661) Copied!
Perl \x{0295} Copied!
PHP \u{0295} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\0295' Copied!
PowerShell `u{0295} Copied!
Python \u0295 Copied!
Ruby \u{0295} Copied!
Rust \u{0295} Copied!