U+01A8 Latin Small Letter Tone Two
U+01A8 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin Extended-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter Tone Two and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter Tone Two.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+01A8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 3 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ƨ (minuscule: ƨ) is a letter which appears in numerous alphabets, including some proposed extensions of the Latin alphabet. Depending on the context in which the letter is used, it is typically based either on the numeral 2 or the Latin letter S.
Ƨ was used in the Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to indicate the second, or falling, tone (IPA: [˧˩]), due to its resemblance to the numeral 2, along with four other letters resembling numbers. (See: Table). In 1986, Ƨ was replaced by the similarly shaped, but more common Z, when the alphabet was simplified for use in computers.
The proposed Metelko alphabet, devised by Franc Serafin Metelko, used the letter Ƨ to represent the schwa ə sound; it is unclear what inspiration Metelko used for the character (possibly from the Georgian letter ჷ used in the Laz and Svan languages spoken in the Southern Caucasus).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 424 |
| UTF-8 | C6 A8 |
| UTF-16 | 01 A8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 01 A8 |
| URL-Quoted | %C6%A8 |
| HTML hex reference | ƨ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ƨ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 9B 38 |
| Adobe Glyph List | tonetwo |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER TONE TWO | |
| — | |
| Latin Extended-B | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Latin Small Letter Tone Two | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter Tone Two | |
| Latin Small Letter Tone Two | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Tone Two | |
| Latin Capital Letter Tone Two | |
| Latin Capital Letter Tone Two | |
| Latin Capital Letter Tone Two | |
| Latin Small Letter Tone Two | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Tone Two | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Tone Two | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Tone Two | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Tone Two | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter Tone Two | |
| R |