U+1AB2 "᪲" Combining Infinity Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᪲
U+1AB2 "᪲" Combining Infinity is a specialized diacritical mark used in the extended combining diacritical marks block, designed to be placed above or below a base character to modify its meaning, often in academic or phonetic transcription contexts. Its glyph resembles the infinity symbol (∞), and it is typically employed to convey concepts of endlessness, unboundedness, or continuous repetition in linguistic, mathematical, or symbolic notation systems. Despite its abstract form, this character serves a practical role in precise textual representation, allowing scholars and typographers to encode nuanced modifications without resorting to external graphics or custom formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AB2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Combining Infinity |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Extended |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᪲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᪲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAA 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AB2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AB2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ab2 |