What 𐞠 means
It is a raised phonetic modifier based on IPA letter ʎ.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), ʎ represents a voiced palatal lateral approximant: an l-like sound made with the tongue near the hard palate.
IPA ʎ appears in descriptions of Italian gli and foglia, and Catalan llac, callar, and tall. In central and southern Italian, the sound can instead be an l followed by a brief glide toward the vowel in see.
Why does 𐞠 have a raised form?
It is a distinct phonetic character, not superscript styling.
The International Phonetic Alphabet standardized its alphabet in 1888 for cross-language sound transcription and pronunciation teaching.
Unicode's 2004 proposal reported no attested example for this exact modifier, so its practical-use history is unclear.
How do I type 𐞠?
Superscript formatting on ʎ cannot produce the separate character 𐞠.
Specialist phonetic notation, suited to pronunciation descriptions rather than ordinary prose.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐞠 show as a box?
A missing-glyph box appears when the font lacks this glyph. Choose a font with Latin Extended-F coverage; the text still contains 𐞠.
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- IPA modifier · turned-y modifier · superscript phonetic modifier · ʎ
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐞠\107A0Codes and encoding1 code points
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