U+01A7 "Ƨ" Latin Capital Letter Tone Two Unicode Character
U+01A7 "Ƨ" Latin Capital Letter Tone Two is a typographic symbol used primarily in certain African languages, particularly in the orthography of languages like Mbelime and some other languages of Benin and Togo, where it represents a specific tone, often a mid or falling tone, in tonal writing systems. Its lowercase counterpart is U+01A8 "ƨ", and it visually resembles the digit 2 turned upside down, which reflects its historical origin as a simplified adaptation for distinguishing tonal marks in contexts where standard diacritics were impractical. This character is distinct from the upside-down "S" used in other scripts or as a decorative glyph, and it is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode to support the accurate digital representation of these tonal languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01A7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Tone Two |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01a7 |
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 | "ƨ" U+01A8 Latin Small Letter Tone Two |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƨ" U+01A8 Latin Small Letter Tone Two |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƨ" U+01A8 Latin Small Letter Tone Two |
| Case Folding | "ƨ" U+01A8 Latin Small Letter Tone Two |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƨ" U+01A8 Latin Small Letter Tone Two |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƨ" U+01A8 Latin Small Letter Tone Two |
| 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 |