U+07ED "߭" NKo Combining Short Rising Tone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07ED "߭" NKo Combining Short Rising Tone is a diacritical mark used in the NKo alphabet, which is a script developed for writing the Manding languages of West Africa. This combining character is placed above or attached to a base NKo letter to indicate a short rising tone, a crucial tonal distinction that affects the meaning of words in tonal languages like Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. As part of the NKo block in Unicode, it enables precise digital representation of these languages, preserving linguistic nuance and aiding in accurate text rendering for communication, education, and cultural preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07ED |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Combining Short Rising 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 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07ed |