U+A708 "꜈" Modifier Letter Extra-High Dotted Tone Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꜈
U+A708 "꜈" Modifier Letter Extra-High Dotted Tone Bar is a typographic symbol used in linguistic transcription, specifically within certain romanization systems for tonal languages, such as those found in Chinese dialectology or African languages. It visually represents a high pitch level with an added dot, serving as a diacritic-like modifier to indicate a specific tone contour when attached to a base letter or syllable. This character belongs to the "Modifier Tone Letters" block and is part of a system of dotted tone bars that allow for more precise tonal notation, distinguishing it from other tone bars by combining the extra-high pitch marker with a dotted element for phonetic clarity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A708 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Extra-High Dotted Tone Bar |
| 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 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA708 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A708 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua708 |