U+1069 "ၩ" Myanmar Sign Western Pwo Karen Tone-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1069 "ၩ" Myanmar Sign Western Pwo Karen Tone-1 is a combining mark used in the Myanmar script to represent a specific high-falling or rising tone in the Western Pwo Karen language, primarily spoken in parts of Myanmar and Thailand. This glyph is placed above or adjacent to a base consonant to modify its pronunciation, indicating the first tone in a system of four to five distinct tonemes for that dialect. As part of the Myanmar Extended-A block, it serves a crucial function in accurately representing the phonology of Western Pwo Karen in written form, helping to distinguish word meanings that would otherwise be ambiguous.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1069 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Sign Western Pwo Karen Tone-1 |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ၩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ၩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x81 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1069 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001069 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1069 |