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<h2 id="block">Block</h2> <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="17">Modifier Tone Letters[1]<a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA700.pdf">Official Unicode Consortium code chart</a> (PDF)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><td>D</td><td>E</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>U+A70x</td><td>꜀</td><td>꜁</td><td>꜂</td><td>꜃</td><td>꜄</td><td>꜅</td><td>꜆</td><td>꜇</td><td>꜈</td><td>꜉</td><td>꜊</td><td>꜋</td><td>꜌</td><td>꜍</td><td>꜎</td><td>꜏</td></tr><tr><td>U+A71x</td><td>꜐</td><td>꜑</td><td>꜒</td><td>꜓</td><td>꜔</td><td>꜕</td><td>꜖</td><td>ꜗ</td><td>ꜘ</td><td>ꜙ</td><td>ꜚ</td><td>ꜛ</td><td>ꜜ</td><td>ꜝ</td><td>ꜞ</td><td>ꜟ</td></tr><tr><td colspan="17">Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Modifier Tone Letters block: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Version</a></th><th>Final code points<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></th><th>Count</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Committee_for_Information_Technology_Standards/CXq4JYfR">L2</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC_2/IcW7grUW">WG2</a> ID</th><th>Document</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="5">4.1</td><td rowspan="5">U+A700..A716</td><td rowspan="5">23</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03317-n2626-ipa-china.pdf">L2/03-317</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2626.pdf">N2626</a></td><td><i>Proposal on IPA Extensions & Combining Diacritical Marks for ISO/IEC 10646 in BMP</i>, 2003-09-27</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03339-n2646-comments-n2626.pdf">L2/03-339</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2646.pdf">N2646</a></td><td>Constable, Peter (2003-10-08), <i>Comments on N2626, Proposal on IPA Extensions and Combining Diacritic Marks for ISO/IEC 10646 in BMP</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03372-response-to-n2626.pdf">L2/03-372</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2673.doc">N2673</a></td><td>Anderson, Deborah (2003-10-22), <i>Comments on N2626, "Proposal on IPA Extensions & Combining Diacritic Marks for ISO 10646 in BMP"</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04107-n2713-tones.pdf">L2/04-107</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2713.pdf">N2713</a></td><td><i>Revised Proposal for encoding A Supplemented Set of IPA Combining Marks, Modifier Letters & Five-Degree Contour Tone Marks</i>, 2004-03-20</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04156.htm">L2/04-156R2</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), "Supplemental set of IPA combing marks, modifier letters, and five-degree contour tone marks (A.7)", <i>UTC #99 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3">5.0</td><td rowspan="3">U+A717..A71A</td><td rowspan="3">4</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04246r-LtnPhonOrth.pdf">L2/04-246R</a></td><td></td><td>Priest, Lorna (2004-07-26), <i>Revised Proposal for Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04349-chinantec.pdf">L2/04-349</a></td><td></td><td>Priest, Lorna (2004-08-27), <i>Proposal to Encode Chinantec Tone Marks and Orthographic 'at' Characters</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04349r-chinantec.pdf">L2/04-349R</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2883.pdf">N2883</a></td><td>Priest, Lorna (2004-12-09), <i>Proposal to Encode Chinantec Tone Marks</i></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3">5.1</td><td rowspan="3">U+A71B..A71F</td><td rowspan="3">5</td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2945.pdf">N2945</a></td><td>Priest, Lorna; Constable, Peter (2005-08-09), <i>Proposal to Encode Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2953.pdf">N2953 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2953.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.2.8", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3103.pdf">N3103 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3103.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.1", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Phonetic_symbols_in_Unicode/hK8F3ggJ">Phonetic symbols in Unicode</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>