Bullseye (letter)

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A bullseye or bull's eye (ʘ) is a symbol used in phonetic transcription to represent a bilabial click.

The symbol was made an official part of the International Phonetic Alphabet in 1979, but had existed for at least 50 years earlier.

[edit] Computer encoding

The bullseye is encoded in Unicode as U+0298 LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK.

[edit] References

  • Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press, 132–133. 
The ISO basic Latin alphabet
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