U+1390 "᎐" Ethiopic Tonal Mark Yizet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᎐
U+1390 "᎐" Ethiopic Tonal Mark Yizet is a combining diacritical mark used in the Geʽez script to indicate a specific tonal or intonational pattern in certain Ethiopic languages, such as when transcribing tone in languages like Meʽen or other Cushitic and Omotic tongues that employ the Ethiopic syllabary. It appears as a small horizontal line above a base character and is part of the Ethiopic Extended block, which was added to the Unicode standard to support additional phonetic and grammatical features beyond the core Ethiopic syllabary. This mark helps distinguish meaning in words that would otherwise be ambiguous based on tone, contributing to accurate text representation in scholarly and liturgical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1390 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Tonal Mark Yizet |
| Block | Ethiopic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᎐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᎐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1390 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001390 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1390 |
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 | Alphabetic |
| Script | Ethiopic |
| Script Extensions | Ethiopic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |