U+1DCD "᷍" Combining Double Circumflex Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷍
U+1DCD "᷍" Combining Double Circumflex Above is a diacritical mark used in the Latin script, typically applied to a base letter to indicate a special phonetic or tonal quality, most notably in medieval manuscripts or in certain linguistic transcriptions of tone or vowel length. It visually represents two circumflex accents stacked horizontally above a character, serving to modify that character's pronunciation or meaning in specific orthographic systems. This mark is rarely used in modern standard languages but appears in specialized academic contexts such as philology, Old English studies, or the annotation of archaic scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DCD |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Double Circumflex Above |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Double Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᷍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᷍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB7 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DCD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DCD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dcd |