U+1AB9 "᪹" Combining Light Centralization Stroke Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᪹
U+1AB9 "᪹" Combining Light Centralization Stroke Below is a combining diacritical mark belonging to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block, intended for use in phonetic transcription and linguistic notation. This character is placed beneath a base letter to indicate a light or partial centralization of the vowel or consonant sound, typically within specialized orthographies or academic contexts such as the International Phonetic Alphabet or closely related systems. Its appearance consists of a small, horizontal or slightly curved stroke below the base glyph, and it modifies the pronunciation without forming an independent character itself.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AB9 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Combining Light Centralization Stroke 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 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ab9 |