U+1397 "᎗" Ethiopic Tonal Mark Hidet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1397 "᎗" Ethiopic Tonal Mark Hidet is a diacritical symbol used in the Geʽez script to indicate a specific low or rising tone in certain Ethiopic languages, such as Meʼen or other Cushitic and Omotic languages that require tonal distinctions beyond the standard syllabary. This mark is placed above or within a base syllable to modify its pronunciation, and it is part of the Ethiopic Extended block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support additional phonetic and tonal notation for scholarly and liturgical texts. The hidet mark, like other tones in this set, helps preserve accurate linguistic and cultural data for languages where pitch changes alter meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1397 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Tonal Mark Hidet |
| 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1397 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001397 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1397 |
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 |