voiced retroflex sibilant
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Key facts
- Entity decimal
- & #656;
- Unicode hex
- U+0290
- X sampa
- z`
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- central consonant
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- IPA transcription
- ʐ
- X-SAMPA code
- z`
- Kirshenbaum code
- z.
- IPA Braille
- ⠲⠵
- catalog code
- 137
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Encyclopedic overview
A voiced retroflex sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʐ⟩. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of a z (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant).
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “voiced retroflex sibilant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.