U+A707 "꜇" Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yang Ru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A707 "꜇" Modifier Letter Chinese Tone Yang Ru is a specialized typographic symbol used in phonetic transcription systems, particularly for representing the "Yang Ru" tone in historical or dialectal accounts of Chinese languages. This character belongs to the "Modifier Tone Letters" block, which was specifically encoded to facilitate the notation of the four tonal categories (Ping, Shang, Qu, Ru) with their Yin and Yang subdivisions found in Middle Chinese and certain modern Chinese dialects. The "Yang Ru" tone itself refers to a "entering" or checked tone (a syllable ending in a stop consonant) that historically corresponded to syllables with voiced initial consonants, a category that has since evolved and merged in most varieties of Mandarin but remains distinct in other Sinitic languages such as Cantonese and Southern Min. The glyph itself is designed as a small, raised diacritic-like letter, allowing it to be placed after a phonetic syllable to indicate its tonal classification, t
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
꜇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
꜇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0x9C 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA707 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A707 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua707 |
Unicode Properties