Palatal hook

The Palatalhaken is a diacritical mark, which was previously included in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

The Palatalhaken served palatalized consonants, as they occur in Russian about portray. He was usually in the form of a small hook to the left, which in contrast to a normal hook is not combined with the consonants, but stood side separately. The characters ʃ ʒ and had special forms with a loop ( ʆ, ʓ ), but some authors also used the Palatalhaken. Since 1989, the Palatalhaken is no longer officially used, should instead palatalization are represented by a small superscript j.

Unicode contains ready-made characters in the Unicode Phonetic Extensions block, addition, other characters can be by adjusting the combining Palatalhakens at code point U 0321 represent.