U+1DC4 "᷄" Combining Macron-Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷄
U+1DC4 "᷄" Combining Macron-Acute is a diacritical mark used in certain phonetic or linguistic transcription systems, most notably in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) extended set. This character combines a macron, indicating length or a high tone, with an acute accent, which typically denotes a rising or high pitch, and is designed to be placed over a base letter to modify its pronunciation. It serves as a typographic tool for scholars and language specialists who need to precisely represent tones or stress patterns in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DC4 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Combining Macron-Acute |
| 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dc4 |