What 𐞵 means
It marks a light, partial release of a bilabial click.
IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet, uses modifier letters beside a larger sound to mark a brief release or incomplete articulation. “Bilabial” means both lips make the closure; a lip-smack gives a rough everyday feel for the click. The sequence ŋ͡m𐞵 shows a light bilabial click release after a nasal made with both lips.
The notation has a longer history: Passy and Jones proposed earlier click letters in 1921, and the IPA revised its click notation at the Kiel Convention in 1989. Kelly and Local’s 1989 field notes record 𐞵 for a light bilabial click release after a nasal made at the same place. Bilabial clicks also occur in some Tuu and Kx’a languages of southern Africa and in Damin, an Australian language.
How do I type 𐞵?
Use a Unicode code-point picker to enter the encoded modifier.
Enter U107B5 in a Unicode-aware editor’s character picker. Formatting ʘ as superscript changes its appearance, but it does not create this separate modifier character.
Unicode’s reference glyph is not prescriptive, so fonts can draw 𐞵 differently. The character’s identity and phonetic role stay the same across those designs.
Specialist phonetic notation for IPA transcriptions and linguistic notes.
Without phonetic context, its raised form can look like formatting rather than a separate modifier.
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1Why does 𐞵 look different across fonts?
Fonts can draw the same character differently: Unicode’s reference shape is guidance, not a required design. The variation changes its appearance, not its phonetic role.
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𐞵\107B5Codes and encoding1 code points
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