U+1AD8 "" Combining Macron-Acute-Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1AD8 "" Combining Macron-Acute-Grave is a diacritical mark used in the Latin Extended-E block, designed to be placed above a base letter to modify its pronunciation by combining a macron (a horizontal line indicating length) with an acute accent and a grave accent. This rare character is intended for specialized phonetic transcription or scholarly orthographies in certain languages, where it represents a complex tonal or stress pattern not easily conveyed by simpler diacritics. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately reproduce such nuanced linguistic details, particularly in field work or academic settings where precise representation of spoken sounds is critical.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AD8 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Combining Macron-Acute-Grave |
| 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ad8 |