U+1ACE "ᫎ" Combining Latin Small Letter Insular T Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1ACE "ᫎ" Combining Latin Small Letter Insular T is a diacritical mark used in historical and medieval textual scholarship, specifically designed to combine with a preceding base letter to represent the insular form of the Latin letter T, which was commonly employed in early medieval scripts such as Old English and Irish manuscripts. This combining character, part of the Unicode Combining Half Marks block, allows digital encoding of scribal abbreviations and paleographic features that distinguish palatalized or modified pronunciations, particularly in the reconstruction of ancient texts where the insular T appears as a distinct glyph shape. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital representation of linguistic and orthographic nuances in historical documents, aiding researchers in philology and manuscript studies without altering the base character's identity.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᫎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᫎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xAB 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1ACE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001ACE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1ace |
Unicode Properties