U+A701 "꜁" Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yang Ping Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꜁
U+A701 "꜁" Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yang Ping is a diacritical mark used in linguistic transcription, specifically within the Sinological extension of the International Phonetic Alphabet, to denote the yang ping (low level) tone in the reconstruction of Middle Chinese and certain modern Chinese dialects. This character, part of the "Modifier Tone Letters" block, represents a sustained, low-pitched tonal contour, often employed by scholars in phonetic notation or to mark tonal distinctions in romanized texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A701 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yang Ping |
| Block | Modifier Tone Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꜁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꜁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9C 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA701 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A701 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua701 |
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 |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Han Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |