U+0363 "ͣ" Combining Latin Small Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ͣ
U+0363 "ͣ" Combining Latin Small Letter A is a combining diacritical mark used primarily in historical and phonetic transcriptions to modify a preceding base character, such as indicating a reduced or unstressed vowel sound. It is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks block and was derived from the medieval scribal practice of superscripting letters, where the superscript "a" appears above the base letter to denote a specific pronunciation or grammatical feature. This character is not typically used in modern standard languages but remains important for scholars of historical linguistics, Old English, or Slavic philology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0363 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter A |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ͣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ͣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCD 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0363 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000363 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0363 |