| Voiced palatal implosive | |||
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| ʄ | |||
| IPA number | 164 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ʄ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+0284 | ||
| X-SAMPA | J\_< |
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| Kirshenbaum | 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 (the symbol for the voiced palatal plosive) 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/.
Features of the voiced palatal implosive: