U+A78F "ꞏ" Latin Letter Sinological Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A78F "ꞏ" Latin Letter Sinological Dot is a diacritic mark and typographic symbol used primarily in sinological linguistics to represent a phonemic distinction or a specific tone in the reconstruction of historical Chinese phonology, as well as in certain romanization systems for transcribing Middle Chinese or Old Chinese sounds where it often denotes a slight pause, a glottal stop, or the separation of syllable boundaries. This character appears as a small raised dot and is distinct from the similarly shaped middle dot or interpunct, as it is intended for use in academic and linguistic texts to provide precise phonetic notation rather than for punctuation. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars can correctly encode and digitally process this specialized symbol without relying on visual approximations or substitutions.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꞏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꞏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0x9E 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA78F |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A78F |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua78f |
Unicode Properties