MODIFIER LETTER COLON

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Codepoint U+A789
Literal Character
Name MODIFIER LETTER COLON
Sketch
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Control Character no
Block Latin Extended-D
Subblock Radix symbols
UTF-8 byte encoding ea 9e 89
UTF-16 byte encoding a7 89 (big endian)
HTML Entity ꞉
Perl string literal \x{A789}
Comments
  • used as a tone letter in some orthographies
  • Budu (Congo), Sabaot (Kenya), Grebo (Liberia), and several Papua New Guinea languages
See Also U+003A: colon
U+02D0: modifier letter triangular colon
U+02F8: modifier letter raised colon
U+A4FD: lisu letter tone mya jeu