What ȹ means
It is a voiceless stop made between lip and teeth. The lower lip closes against the upper front teeth, briefly blocking air, then releases it. “Voiceless” means the vocal cords do not vibrate.
Unlike an f-like hiss, this sound begins with a full closure. “Qp” names the joined q and p letter shapes; the symbol represents one consonant.
What is ȹ's documented history?
One early example is a 1954 book by linguist Clement Doke.
It discusses Bantu languages of southern Africa; phonetics works from 1996 and 2002 also cite the labiodental pair.
Who writes ȹ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ȹ 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 ȹ
- Also called
- qp ligature
- Search it as
- qp digraph · labiodental plosive · voiceless labiodental stop · phonetic transcription · Africanist phonetics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ȹ\0239Codes and encoding1 code points
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