U+0859 "࡙" Mandaic Affrication Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0859 "࡙" Mandaic Affrication Mark is a combining diacritical mark used in the Mandaic script, an alphabet historically employed for writing the Mandaic language, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religion. This specific mark is placed above or attached to a base Mandaic consonant to indicate that the consonant should be pronounced as an affricate, a complex speech sound that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, such as the "ts" sound. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard facilitates the accurate digital representation and preservation of Mandaic texts, allowing scholars and speakers to correctly capture the phonetic nuances of the language in electronic documents and communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0859 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Mandaic Affrication Mark |
| Block | Mandaic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0859 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000859 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0859 |