U+1AB8 "᪸" Combining Double Open Mark Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1AB8 "᪸" Combining Double Open Mark Below is a diacritical mark used in the Latin script, specifically designed to be placed beneath a base character to form a combined glyph. This mark appears as two small open shapes arranged horizontally, similar to a pair of parentheses pointing outward, and is typically employed in philological or medieval text annotation to indicate a specific phonetic or editorial feature. Its inclusion in the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block ensures that it can be seamlessly stacked with other diacritics in complex orthographies, particularly for scholarly transcription of historical documents where precise notation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AB8 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Combining Double Open Mark Below |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Extended |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᪸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᪸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAA 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ab8 |