U+1AFF8 "𚿸" Katakana Letter Minnan Nasalized Tone-2 Unicode Character

U+1AFF8 "𚿸" Katakana Letter Minnan Nasalized Tone-2 is a specialized character used in the extended Katakana block to represent a specific phonetic sound in the Minnan language, which is a group of Chinese dialects spoken in Fujian, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. This character denotes a nasalized syllable with the second tone, a high-falling pitch, and is part of the medieval katakana extension for writing Taiwanese Hokkien. It appears as a small katakana "e" with a distinctive diacritic mark indicating nasality and tone, and it was introduced in Unicode version 14.0 in 2021 to support linguistic and scholarly documentation of Minnan phonology.