U+02EB "˫" Modifier Letter Yang Departing Tone Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+02EB "˫" Modifier Letter Yang Departing Tone Mark is a small diacritical glyph used primarily in Chinese dialectology and historical phonology to represent the Yang Departing tone in Middle Chinese or related languages. This tone mark belongs to the category of modifier letters, which are placed after a base character to indicate a specific tonal contour. It is rarely used in modern standard Mandarin but appears in linguistic texts and transcription systems for varieties of Chinese and other tonal languages. The character should not be confused with similar looking punctuation or diacritics and is encoded in the Spacing Modifier Letters block of Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02EB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Yang Departing Tone Mark |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02eb |