U+07FF "߿" NKo Taman Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07FF "߿" NKo Taman Sign is a special punctuation mark used within the NKo script, which was designed for writing the Manding languages of West Africa, such as Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. This character specifically indicates an emphasis or a type of pause, similar in function to an exclamation or attention mark, and it appears as a distinctive diacritic-like symbol typically placed at the end of a word or phrase to denote heightened emotion, emphasis, or a rhetorical command. As the last allocated character in the NKo block (U+07C0 to U+07FF), it serves as a unique linguistic tool within the script's repertoire for nuanced expression.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07FF |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | NKo Taman Sign |
| Block | NKo |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ߿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ߿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDF 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07FF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007FF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07ff |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Prefix Numeric |
| Script | Nko |
| Script Extensions | Nko |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |