U+1AB1 "᪱" Combining Diaeresis-Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1AB1 "᪱" Combining Diaeresis-Ring is a diacritical mark used in historical and scholarly text transcription to modify a base letter by adding both a diaeresis, indicating the separation of a vowel sound into two distinct syllables, and a ring, which typically denotes a different phonetic quality such as a rounded or devoiced vowel. This combining character is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block, designed to be placed above a preceding letter, and it supports precise linguistic notation in fields like Slavic philology, where it aids in representing specific sound changes or accentual features in medieval manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately reproduce these nuanced orthographic details for academic and archival purposes.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
᪱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
᪱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xAA 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1AB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001AB1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1ab1 |
Unicode Properties