U+1DCC "᷌" Combining Macron-Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷌
U+1DCC "᷌" Combining Macron-Breve is a diacritical mark used in written language systems, specifically designed to be placed above a base letter to modify its pronunciation. This character combines a macron, which typically indicates a long vowel sound, with a breve, which usually signifies a short vowel sound, creating a single mark that serves a specialized phonetic purpose. It is primarily found in certain extended Latin script orthographies and transcription systems, such as those used for representing African languages or in some older or scholarly contexts where nuanced vowel length distinctions need to be precisely noted.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DCC |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Macron-Breve |
| 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 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DCC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DCC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dcc |