U+1398 "᎘" Ethiopic Tonal Mark Deret-Hidet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᎘
U+1398 "᎘" Ethiopic Tonal Mark Deret-Hidet is a diacritical mark used in the Ge'ez script to indicate a specific tonal or phonetic variation in certain Ethiopic languages, such as Tigrinya or Amharic. It visually resembles a small, angled stroke placed above or alongside a base character to denote a rising or falling tone, and it is part of a set of tonal marks that help clarify pronunciation and meaning in written text. This mark is encoded in the Unicode Ethiopic Extended block and serves as an essential tool for accurate linguistic representation in digital contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1398 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Tonal Mark Deret-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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1398 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001398 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1398 |
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 |