U+1AFF3 "𚿳" Katakana Letter Minnan Tone-5 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𚿳
U+1AFF3 "𚿳" Katakana Letter Minnan Tone-5 is a recently added symbol in the Unicode standard, part of the Katakana Phonetic Extensions block, designed to represent the fifth tone in the Minnan language using a modified katakana character. It is used in linguistic and phonetic transcriptions to notate the specific tone contour for syllables in Southern Min Chinese dialects, such as Hokkien and Taiwanese. This character helps provide a standardized way to represent tonal information in digital text, aiding in language documentation, education, and typography for Minnan.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AFF3 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Minnan Tone-5 |
| Block | Kana Extended-B |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𚿳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𚿳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9A 0xBF 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82B 0xDFF3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001AFF3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82b\udff3 |