U+01A8 "ƨ" Latin Small Letter Tone Two Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ƨ
U+01A8 "ƨ" Latin Small Letter Tone Two is a glyph used in certain African languages, particularly in the orthography of the Gbe languages such as Ewe and Fon, to represent a specific tonal contour, often indicating a mid or falling tone. Its design resembles a reversed or mirrored Latin letter s, and it is part of the Latin Extended-B block, where it pairs with its uppercase counterpart U+01A7. This character helps to distinguish meaning in tonal languages where pitch patterns are essential for lexical clarity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01A8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Tone Two |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ƨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ƨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01a8 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ƨ" U+01A7 Latin Capital Letter Tone Two |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ƨ" U+01A7 Latin Capital Letter Tone Two |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ƨ" U+01A7 Latin Capital Letter Tone Two |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ƨ" U+01A7 Latin Capital Letter Tone Two |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |