Voiced retroflex affricate

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Voiced retroflex affricate
ɖʐ
ꭦ
ʣ̢
IPA number	106 (137)
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Entity (decimal)	ɖ​͡​ʐ
Unicode (hex)	U+0256 U+0361 U+0290
X-SAMPA	dz`
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The voiced retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨d̠͡ʐ ⟩, ⟨ʣ̢⟩ sometimes simplified to ⟨dʐ ⟩ or ⟨ꭦ ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is dz`. Its apical variant is ⟨ɖ̺͡ʐ̺ ⟩ and laminal variant ⟨ɖ̻͡ʐ̻ ⟩. It occurs in such languages as Polish (the laminal affricate dż) and Northwest Caucasian languages (apical).