U+1BC84 "𛲄" Duployan Affix High Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛲄
U+1BC84 "𛲄" Duployan Affix High Dot is a component of the Duployan shorthand writing system, which was developed in the 19th century for rapid transcription in French, English, and other languages. This specific character functions as a diacritical mark placed high above other shorthand symbols to modify their phonetic value, often indicating a specific vowel sound or a change in pronunciation. As part of the Shorthand Format Controls block, its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve historical stenography methods, enabling digital representation and research into these once widely used but now largely obsolete script systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC84 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Duployan Affix High Dot |
| Block | Duployan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛲄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛲄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0xB2 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82F 0xDC84 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001BC84 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82f\udc84 |