U+1DCA "᷊" Combining Latin Small Letter R Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷊
U+1DCA "᷊" Combining Latin Small Letter R Below is a diacritical mark used in historical or scholarly text encoding to indicate a specific modification to a base letter, typically in medieval or phonetic transcription contexts, where a small Latin "r" is placed beneath the preceding character to denote a rhotic or r-coloring influence. This combining character does not stand alone but attaches to a base letter, allowing for precise representation of certain sounds in ancient manuscripts or linguistic notation systems. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital preservation of specialized writing traditions, particularly in fields like Old English or Indo-European studies where such diacritics appear.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DCA |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter R Below |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᷊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᷊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB7 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dca |