U+A709 "꜉" Modifier Letter High Dotted Tone Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꜉
U+A709 "꜉" Modifier Letter High Dotted Tone Bar is a typographic symbol belonging to the Latin Extended-D block, specifically designed for phonetic transcription systems. It represents a high tone that is preceded by a dot, indicating a specific pitch contour or tonal quality in languages such as those of the Lolo-Burmese family. This character is used in linguistic notation to annotate tonal distinctions, where the dot modifies the bar to denote a level high tone with a particular articulatory or diacritic feature. By encoding this modifier, Unicode supports precise representation of complex tonal systems in digital text environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A709 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter 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 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA709 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A709 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua709 |