The voiced retroflex sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of a z (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant).

Features of the voiced retroflex sibilant: In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical [ʐ̺] and laminal [ʐ̻].

The commonality of [ʐ] cross-linguistically is 2% in a phonological analysis of 2155 languages.

Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible.