U+1AFF8 "𚿸" Katakana Letter Minnan Nasalized Tone-2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𚿸
U+1AFF8 "𚿸" Katakana Letter Minnan Nasalized Tone-2 is a specialized character used in the extended Katakana block to represent a specific phonetic sound in the Minnan language, which is a group of Chinese dialects spoken in Fujian, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. This character denotes a nasalized syllable with the second tone, a high-falling pitch, and is part of the medieval katakana extension for writing Taiwanese Hokkien. It appears as a small katakana "e" with a distinctive diacritic mark indicating nasality and tone, and it was introduced in Unicode version 14.0 in 2021 to support linguistic and scholarly documentation of Minnan phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AFF8 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Minnan Nasalized Tone-2 |
| Block | Kana Extended-B |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𚿸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𚿸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9A 0xBF 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82B 0xDFF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001AFF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82b\udff8 |