ʮ ( turned ''h'' with fishhook) is a symbol from extensions to

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for apical dental rounded

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. That is, it is the "z" sound in English pronounced with rounded lips, and treated as a vowel in a syllable. It is used by

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s when transcribing words from various languages. The standard IPA notation would be . See

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Unicode

In Unicode, this letter is encoded at .

References

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