U+AB6A "꭪" Modifier Letter Left Tack Unicode Character

U+AB6A "꭪" Modifier Letter Left Tack is a diacritical mark in the Latin Extended-E block, used primarily in phonetic transcription to indicate a specific type of articulation or sound modification. Its glyph resembles a small horizontal line with a downward hook on the left side, functioning as a modifier that attaches to other letters to alter their pronunciation. This character is part of a set of tack modifiers employed by linguists and scholars to represent subtle phonetic distinctions in minority languages or specialized notation systems, though it remains relatively obscure outside of technical linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+AB6A
Version Added	13.0
Name	Modifier Letter Left Tack
Block	Latin Extended-E
General Category	Modifier Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꭪
HTML Hex Encoding	꭪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xAD 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xAB6A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000AB6A
C/C++/Java Escape	\uab6a

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	Other
Sentence Break	Other