U+1AC1 "᫁" Combining Left Parenthesis Above Left Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᫁
U+1AC1 "᫁" Combining Left Parenthesis Above Left is a diacritical mark used in phonetic scripts, particularly for transcribing tone or other linguistic features in certain languages, such as those within the Sinological or Uralic traditions. It appears as a small left parenthesis placed above the left side of a base character, functioning to modify or disambiguate the pronunciation of that letter. This character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and serves a specialized role in scholarly and technical texts rather than in everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AC1 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Combining Left Parenthesis Above Left |
| 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 0xAB 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AC1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ac1 |