U+106B "ၫ" Myanmar Sign Western Pwo Karen Tone-3 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+106B "ၫ" Myanmar Sign Western Pwo Karen Tone-3 is a combining diacritical mark used in the Myanmar script to represent the third tone in the Western Pwo Karen language. It appears above a consonant or vowel character to modify its pronunciation, specifically indicating the tone pattern associated with the Western Pwo Karen dialect. This sign is part of the Myanmar Extended-A block in Unicode, aiding in the accurate digital representation of a tonal language spoken in parts of Myanmar and Thailand.

General Properties

Code Point U+106B
Version Added 5.1
Name Myanmar Sign Western Pwo Karen Tone-3
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 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x106B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000106B
C/C++/Java Escape \u106b

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 Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Tone Mark
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend