U+1AE9 "" Combining Left Angle Centred Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1AE9 "" Combining Left Angle Centred Above is a diacritical mark used in the Latin script, primarily for transliterating Southeast Asian languages such as the Palaungic or Mon-Khmer linguistic families, where it modifies a base letter to indicate a specific tonal or phonetic distinction. As a combining character, it is positioned above the preceding letter, centered horizontally, and forms a left-pointing angle that sits close to the baseline of the accent area. This glyph is part of the Extended Latin block of Unicode and is rarely seen in standard typography, as its use is limited to specialized linguistic notation and scholarly transcription of minority languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AE9 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Combining Left Angle Centred 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 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ae9 |