U+0184 "Ƅ" Latin Capital Letter Tone Six Unicode Character
U+0184 "Ƅ" Latin Capital Letter Tone Six is a typographic symbol used in certain African language orthographies, most notably in the modern standard alphabet for the Bassa language of Liberia, where it represents a specific high tone or a distinct phonological unit. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and is accompanied by its lowercase counterpart, U+0185, which mirrors the same tone marking function in writing systems that require precise tonal differentiation. Its design typically resembles a capital letter B with a small tail or hook, distinguishing it from the standard Latin B, and it serves to accurately transcribe the tonal qualities of languages that rely on pitch to convey meaning, thereby aiding in clear communication and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0184 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Tone Six |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0184 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000184 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0184 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƅ" U+0185 Latin Small Letter Tone Six |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƅ" U+0185 Latin Small Letter Tone Six |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƅ" U+0185 Latin Small Letter Tone Six |
| Case Folding | "ƅ" U+0185 Latin Small Letter Tone Six |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƅ" U+0185 Latin Small Letter Tone Six |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƅ" U+0185 Latin Small Letter Tone Six |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |