U+1DC3 "᷃" Combining Suspension Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷃
U+1DC3 "᷃" Combining Suspension Mark is a diacritical mark used in medieval manuscript studies, specifically within the field of paleography and textual criticism. It is placed above a letter to indicate a suspension or abbreviation in a word, functioning as a scribal shorthand that signals the omission of letters or a portion of a word, typically in Latin or other early European texts. This mark is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block and helps modern scholars accurately represent and analyze the abbreviated forms found in historical documents, preserving the structure and meaning of the original manuscript evidence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DC3 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Combining Suspension Mark |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᷃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᷃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB7 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dc3 |