U+A702 "꜂" Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yin Shang Unicode Character

U+A702 “꜂” Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yin Shang is a specialized diacritic mark used in linguistic transcription systems, particularly for representing the second tone in certain Romanizations of Chinese languages, such as Middle Chinese or historical Mandarin studies. This character belongs to the “Modifier Tone Letters” block and is employed to denote a high rising or dipping tone contour associated with the “yin shang” tonal category, which is part of the traditional four-tone system. It typically appears as a superscript or modifying symbol attached to a base syllable to indicate specific tonal pronunciation in academic or philological texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A702
Version Added	4.1
Name	Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yin Shang
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 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA702
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A702
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua702

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