Voiceless retroflex affricate

A voiceless 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 ⟨ʈ͡ʂ⟩ or ⟨t̠͡ʂ⟩, often simplified to ⟨tʂ⟩. There is also a ligature ⟨ꭧ⟩, which has been retired by the International Phonetic Association but is still used. In Americanist tradition, where ⟨c⟩ is used to transcribe the affricate /ts/, the letter ⟨𝼝⟩ has sometimes been used to transcribe the affricate referenced on this page.

A laminal variant occurs in Polish cz, and an apical variant in the Indo-Aryan languages.