What ʚ means
No. The IPA uses ɞ for that vowel (as of 2026).
The IPA's 1907 chart grouped ʚ and ɜ under the label “less wide” vowels; the 1912 revision removed both. Unicode lists ʚ as a non-IPA alternate for œ, the open-mid front rounded vowel.
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Who writes ʚ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ʚ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ʚ
- Search it as
- ʚ IPA · ʚ vs ɞ · phonetic letter · œ IPA symbol
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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Windows
macOS
HTML
ʚCSS
\029ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ʚ
HTML hex
ʚ
CSS content
content: "\029A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%CA%9A
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.