U+07EB "߫" NKo Combining Short High Tone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07EB "߫" NKo Combining Short High Tone is a diacritical mark used in the NKo script, which was designed for writing the Manding languages of West Africa, such as Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. This combining character attaches to a base NKo letter to indicate a short high pitch or tone, a crucial feature in tonal languages where pitch distinctions can change the meaning of a word. It belongs to the NKo block of Unicode, specifically within the range of combining marks that modify vowel or consonant characters to convey grammatical or lexical tone information.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07EB |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Combining Short High Tone |
| Block | NKo |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ߫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ߫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDF 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07eb |