U+A715 "꜕" Modifier Letter Low Left-Stem Tone Bar Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A715 "꜕" Modifier Letter Low Left-Stem Tone Bar is a specialized phonetic symbol used primarily in linguistic transcriptions to indicate a low tone in certain tone bar systems, particularly those derived from the work of earlier linguists like George A. Kennedy. It belongs to the Modifier Tone Letters block and visually resembles a small horizontal bar attached to a left-facing vertical stem, distinguishing it from other tone marks that denote mid or high pitches. This character is not common in everyday text but appears in academic and dictionary contexts for accurately representing tonal languages, especially those of East Asia, where precise pitch notation is essential for linguistic analysis and teaching.

General Properties

Code Point U+A715
Version Added 4.1
Name Modifier Letter Low Left-Stem 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 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA715
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A715
C/C++/Java Escape \ua715

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 Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Diacritic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Other