ⱱ

The ⱱ is a letter in the Latin writing system .

The character was added to the international phonetic alphabet in 2005 and represents the voiced labiodental flap . According to the IPA, the glyph of the character is composed of v ( voiced labiodental fricative ) and ɾ ( voiced alveolar tap ). This symbol replaced the symbol ⱴ , which was used unofficially as a phonetic symbol for this sound for 60 years.

Presentation on the computer

Unicode contains the ⱱ at code point U + 2C71.

Since the character was only added with Unicode 5.1 and can only be displayed by a few browsers, numerous other alternatives are used, such as: B. the graphically similar Cyrillic character Ischiza or the code point U + F25F in the private use area .