U+1ABE "᪾" Combining Parentheses Overlay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᪾
U+1ABE "᪾" Combining Parentheses Overlay is a combining diacritical mark used in the Latin script, designed to be placed over a base character to represent a specific phonetic or orthographic modification, often in linguistic or medieval manuscript contexts. It appears as a single parenthesis shape that overlays the letter, signaling a particular pronunciation or annotation. This character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and is intended for scholarly transcription systems where precise textual representation is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1ABE |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Combining Parentheses Overlay |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Extended |
| General Category | Enclosing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᪾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᪾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAA 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1ABE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001ABE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1abe |