U+1396 "᎖" Ethiopic Tonal Mark Chiret Unicode Character

U+1396 "᎖" Ethiopic Tonal Mark Chiret is a combining diacritic mark used in the Ge'ez script and related Ethiopic writing systems to indicate a specific tonal or prosodic contour, primarily employed in liturgical or scholarly transcriptions of ancient texts like the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible. It appears as a small, curved symbol placed above or attached to a base character to modify its pronunciation, representing a high or rising tone distinct from other tonal marks such as the "Yizet" or "Deret." Unlike alphabetic letters, this mark does not stand alone but must combine with a preceding consonant or syllable, and it is encoded in the Unicode Ethiopic Extended block to support accurate digital representation of historical and linguistic nuances.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1396
Version Added	4.1
Name	Ethiopic Tonal Mark Chiret
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 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1396
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001396
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1396

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