U+A720 "꜠" Modifier Letter Stress and High Tone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꜠
U+A720 "꜠" Modifier Letter Stress and High Tone is a diacritical mark belonging to the Modifier Tone Letters block, designed for use in phonetic transcription systems to indicate both primary stress and a high tone simultaneously on a preceding or associated syllable. Its shape resembles a small, raised acute accent or apostrophe, and it is primarily utilized in linguistic documentation, particularly for languages that require a precise representation of both prosodic stress and tonal information in a single character. This character helps scholars and linguists streamline notation in phonological descriptions, avoiding the need for separate stress and tone markers in certain analytical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A720 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Stress and High Tone |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| 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 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA720 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A720 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua720 |