U+A717 "ꜗ" Modifier Letter Dot Vertical Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꜗ
U+A717 "ꜗ" Modifier Letter Dot Vertical Bar is a specialized diacritical mark used primarily in historical and phonetic transcriptions, particularly within the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It visually combines a small dot placed above a vertical bar, and its function in linguistic notation is to modify the sound of the preceding letter by indicating a specific secondary articulation or fricative quality, often associated with palatalization or other subtle consonantal changes in reconstructed or transcribed languages. This character belongs to the Modifier Tone Letters block of Unicode, though its specific phonetic value can vary depending on the scholarly tradition employing it.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A717 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Dot Vertical Bar |
| Block | Modifier Tone Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꜗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꜗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9C 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA717 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A717 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua717 |