◌̢

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◌̢ U+0322, ̢
COMBINING RETROFLEX HOOK BELOW
◌̡
Combining Diacritical Marks ◌̣
See also: ◌̡

Translingual

Diacritical mark

◌̢

  1. (IPA) The hook tail that is characteristic of a retroflex consonant.

Usage notes

This diacritic should only be used when a dedicated character does not exist. The following characters are not canonically equivalent to the base letters plus ⟨◌̢⟩.

A vowel letter with a hook tail is now typically the allophone of a vowel next to a retroflex consonant, but historically these letters were used for rhotic vowels.

Unicode characters with a hook tail are,

lower case:

upper case:

and superscript:

In some typefaces the Karlgren letters ʅ and ʯ do not have a hook tail but rather a ⟨t⟩-like terminal curl.