Modifier Letter Small Lz Digraph

It marks a voiced lateral-and-median fricative release.

Extended IPA (extIPA) is a system for writing down speech sounds. There, 𐞚 follows a consonant such as d. It signals a noisy release made while the vocal folds vibrate, with air escaping along both the tongue’s side and middle. It is a transcription mark, not separate l and z letters in a word.

The extIPA system began in 1990 for transcribing atypical speech. A revision approved in 2016 appeared in 2018; a 2020 Unicode proposal requested superscript fricative letters for unusual releases of stop consonants—sounds made by briefly blocking airflow—including 𐞚.

Is 𐞚 the same as ʫ?

No: ʫ represents the sound; 𐞚 marks its release on another consonant.

The full-size ʫ represents the voiced lateral–median fricative itself. In the extIPA chart, 𐞚 after d marks that sound as d’s release; its paired modifier 𐞙 after t marks the voiceless counterpart. The small marks modify a consonant rather than replace it.

Why can 𐞚 render as ʫ?

In CLDR 48 character fallback data, 𐞚 maps to full-size ʫ. A system using that compatibility fallback can erase the superscript cue, making the release mark look like a standalone sound symbol.