U+A703 "꜃" Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yang Shang Unicode Character

U+A703 "꜃" Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yang Shang is a typographic symbol used primarily in linguistic and philological contexts to denote the yang shang tone in historical or reconstructed Chinese phonology. It belongs to the Modifier Tone Letters block and appears as a small raised diacritic, often employed in romanization systems or scholarly transcriptions to indicate a specific tonal contour within the framework of Middle Chinese or certain Sinitic language studies. This character helps linguists accurately represent the rising tonal pattern associated with the yang (lower or breathy) register in tonal categories, distinguishing it from other tone letters in the same Unicode range.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A703
Version Added	4.1
Name	Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yang 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA703
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A703
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua703

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