D with hook and tail

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, ᶑ (d with hook and tail ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in phonetic transcription to represent a voiced retroflex implosive [ᶑ], though it is not explicitly part of the International Phonetic Alphabet.^[1] It is formed from d with the addition of a hook to mark it as implosive, and a tail to mark it as retroflex. It is thus a fusion of ⟨ɗ ⟩ and ⟨ɖ ⟩.

⟨ᶑ ⟩ was added to Unicode with version 4.1 in 2005.

Character information

Preview	ᶑ
Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH HOOK AND TAIL
Encodings	decimal	hex
Unicode	7569	U+1D91
UTF-8	225 182 145	E1 B6 91
Numeric character reference	ᶑ	ᶑ

There is no Unicode encoding for a capital form. However, SIL fonts such as Gentium Plus, Doulos SIL and Charis SIL have  U+F20D in their private-use areas as the capital form of ⟨ᶑ ⟩. Alternatively, combining characters can also represent the uppercase ᶑ (like Ɗ̢).