U+0341 "́" Combining Acute Tone Mark Unicode Character

U+0341 "́" Combining Acute Tone Mark is a diacritical mark used in various writing systems to indicate a high or rising tone, but it is distinct from the more common combining acute accent (U+0301) and is primarily intended for specialized phonetic or linguistic applications, particularly in the transcription of tone languages. It visually appears as a small acute symbol placed above or adjacent to a base character, serving to modify its pronunciation by denoting a specific tonal contour. While often confused with similar accents, this specific code point ensures precise representation in digital text for scholarly work or minority language orthographies where tonal distinctions are crucial for meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0341
Version Added	1.1
Name	Combining Acute Tone Mark
Unicode 1.0 Name	Non-Spacing Acute Tone Mark
Block	Combining Diacritical Marks
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class	Above
Bidirectional Class	Nonspacing Mark
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	́
HTML Hex Encoding	́
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCD 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0341
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000341
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0341

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Case Ignorable	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent
NFKC Simple Casefold	"́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent
Script	Inherited
Script Extensions	Inherited
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend