Voiced palatal implosive
| Voiced palatal implosive | |||
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| ʄ | |||
| IPA number | 164 | ||
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| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ʄ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0284 | ||
| X-SAMPA | J\_< | ||
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The voiced palatal implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ ʄ ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\_<. Typographically, the IPA symbol is a dotless lowercase letter j with a horizontal stroke that was initially created by turning the type for a lowercase letter f (the symbol for the voiced palatal stop) and a rightward hook (the diacritic for implosives). A very similar-looking letter, ⟨ ƒ ⟩ (an ⟨f⟩ with a tail), is used in Ewe for /ɸ/.