U+106D "ၭ" Myanmar Sign Western Pwo Karen Tone-5 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+106D "ၭ" Myanmar Sign Western Pwo Karen Tone-5 is a diacritical mark used in the Myanmar script to represent the fifth tone in the Western Pwo Karen language, a tonal language spoken in parts of Myanmar and Thailand. This specific sign is placed above or attached to a base character to alter its pronunciation, distinguishing it from other tones in the language's complex tonal system. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text in Western Pwo Karen can be accurately represented and processed across computing platforms, preserving the linguistic diversity of the Karen languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106D |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Sign Western Pwo Karen Tone-5 |
| 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 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x106D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000106D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u106d |