MODIFIER LETTER COLON

Codepoint
U+A789
Literal Character
Name
MODIFIER LETTER COLON
Sketch
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Control Character
no
Subblock
Modifier letters
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