U+07F1 "߱" NKo Combining Long Rising Tone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07F1 "߱" NKo Combining Long Rising 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 consonant to indicate a specific tonal pronunciation, where the speaker produces a prolonged rising pitch on that syllable. It functions as part of a complex tonal system essential for distinguishing meaning in languages like Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07F1 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Combining Long 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 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07f1 |