U+1ABA "᪺" Combining Strong Centralization Stroke Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1ABA "᪺" Combining Strong Centralization Stroke Below is a combining diacritical mark used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to indicate strong centralization, meaning the vowel sound is articulated more toward the center of the mouth than its usual position. This mark appears below a base character and resembles a small, solid horizontal stroke. It is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and is primarily employed in specialized phonetic transcription to denote a greater degree of centralization than the standard centralization diacritic, allowing for precise representation of vowel sounds in linguistic analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1ABA |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Combining Strong 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 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1ABA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001ABA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1aba |