U+07EE "߮" NKo Combining Long Descending Tone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07EE "߮" NKo Combining Long Descending Tone is a diacritical mark used in the NKo script, which was created for writing the Manding languages of West Africa. This combining character is placed above a base NKo letter to indicate a specific tonal contour, representing a long descending tone, which is phonologically significant in languages like Maninka and Bambara. As part of the NKo block in Unicode, it enables precise tonal marking in digital text, preserving the linguistic nuances of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07EE |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Combining Long Descending 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 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07EE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07ee |