U+02E6 "˦" Modifier Letter High Tone Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
˦
U+02E6 "˦" Modifier Letter High Tone Bar is a typographic symbol used primarily in linguistic notation to represent a high tone level in tone languages, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet extension system for tone transcription. This character belongs to the Spacing Modifier Letters block and appears as a vertical bar positioned at a high vertical height, serving as a diacritic-like mark to indicate a sustained high pitch on a syllable. It is part of a set of tone bar characters that include other levels like mid and low, allowing linguists to transcribe tonal distinctions clearly in written form without relying on complex diacritics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02E6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter High Tone Bar |
| Block | Spacing Modifier Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ˦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ˦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCB 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02e6 |