U+1DCE "᷎" Combining Ogonek Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷎
U+1DCE "᷎" Combining Ogonek Above is a diacritical mark used in medieval and phonetic transcriptions, designed to be placed above a base character rather than below it like the standard ogonek. It indicates a nasalized or modified vowel pronunciation, often appearing in scholarly editions of Old Norse, Old English, or Slavic texts to denote a specific phonetic quality or historical vowel alteration. This combining character modifies the sound of the base letter without taking up additional line space, integrating seamlessly into typed or encoded text for accurate linguistic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DCE |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Ogonek Above |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Attached Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᷎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᷎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB7 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DCE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dce |