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 Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital representation of linguistic and orthographic nuances in historical documents, aiding researchers in philology and manuscript studies without altering the base character's identity.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

Code Point U+1ACE
Version Added 14.0
Name Combining Latin Small Letter Insular T
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 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1ACE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001ACE
C/C++/Java Escape \u1ace

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Inherited
Script Extensions Inherited
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend