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ꜗ

modifier letter dot vertical bar

Modifier Letter Dot Vertical Bar

In Ozumacín Chinantec, ꜗ marks a syllable pronounced at very high pitch with a fast drop. It appears in spellings such as kooꜗ, where it distinguishes the word’s tone. Printed examples from 1990 and 2003 show the mark was already in use before Unicode encoded it.

Text symbol

Search it as: Chinantec · Ozumacín · Chinantec tone mark · high ballistic tone · ballistic tone mark · tone notation · Ozumacín tone marks
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ꜗ means

It marks a high ballistic tone in Ozumacín Chinantec.

A ballistic syllable is slightly shorter than one without that feature, and its pitch falls faster. In an Ozumacín spelling such as kooꜗ, ꜗ follows the syllable and marks that contrast.

Specialized orthography: its presence points to Ozumacín Chinantec writing or linguistic examples.

Don't confuse it with

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Modifier Letter Dot Horizontal Bar

shares “bar”, “dot”, “letter”, “modifier”

Modifier Letter Extra-High Dotted Tone Bar

shares “bar”, “letter”, “modifier”

Modifier Letter High Dotted Tone Bar

shares “bar”, “letter”, “modifier”

Modifier Letter Mid Dotted Tone Bar

shares “bar”, “letter”, “modifier”

Questions people ask

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Why does ꜗ show as a box?

It can. A font without this character may show a box or fallback; the text character is still ꜗ.

How to type ꜗ

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType A717, then Alt+X to get ꜗ.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “modifier letter dot vertical bar”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType a717, then Enter or Space.

HTML

ꜗ

CSS

\A717

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

ꜗ

HTML hex

ꜗ

CSS content

content: "\A717";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%EA%9C%97

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On screen

1

Code points

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JS .length

3

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Accents & marks659 symbols

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