U+036C "ͬ" Combining Latin Small Letter R Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+036C "ͬ" Combining Latin Small Letter R is a diacritical mark used in historic and medieval textual scholarship, specifically designed to combine with a preceding base character to indicate a scribal abbreviation or phonetic modification where a Latin small letter r appears in a superscript or combining form. This character belongs to the "Combining Diacritical Marks" block in Unicode, and its primary function is to attach to the character it follows, typically placed above or to the right, to represent a conventional abbreviation in old manuscripts without breaking the flow of the text. It is employed by scholars working with Latin, Old English, or other early European languages to faithfully reproduce the orthographic conventions of ancient scribes, where the superscript r often denoted syllables like "er," "ar," or "ur" in a compact form.

General Properties

Code Point U+036C
Version Added 3.2
Name Combining Latin Small Letter R
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 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x036C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000036C
C/C++/Java Escape \u036c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Inherited
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend