U+2D6F "ⵯ" Tifinagh Modifier Letter Labialization Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵯ
U+2D6F "ⵯ" Tifinagh Modifier Letter Labialization Mark is a diacritical modifier used in the Tifinagh script to indicate labialization, a phonetic feature where a sound is pronounced with rounded lips, often appearing as a small superscript circle or mark attached to a base Tifinagh letter. This character is part of the Tifinagh block in Unicode and serves a linguistic function in writing languages like Tuareg or other Berber languages that employ the Tifinagh script, helping to distinguish labialized consonants from their non-labialized counterparts in transcription and textual representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D6F |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Modifier Letter Labialization Mark |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ⵡ" U+2D61 Tifinagh Letter Yaw |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D6F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D6F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d6f |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⵡ" U+2D61 Tifinagh Letter Yaw |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⵡ" U+2D61 Tifinagh Letter Yaw |
| Script | Tifinagh |
| Script Extensions | Tifinagh |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |