U+1AC9 "᫉" Combining Double Plus Sign Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᫉
U+1AC9 "᫉" Combining Double Plus Sign Above is a combining diacritical mark, meaning it is designed to be placed over a preceding base character to modify its meaning or pronunciation. It visually resembles two small plus signs stacked vertically, and is used primarily in specialized orthographic or phonetic transcription systems where it may indicate a specific type of emphasis, distinct articulation, or a grammatical feature such as a double positive or heightened degree. This character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and is intended for scholarly or linguistic text, not for general consumer or web use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AC9 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Combining Double Plus Sign Above |
| 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 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ac9 |