U+1DD1 "᷑" Combining Ur Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷑
U+1DD1 "᷑" Combining Ur Above is a combining diacritical mark used in medieval and early Germanic textual studies, specifically in the transcription of Old Norse and related languages, where it graphically modifies a base letter to denote a phonetic nuance or abbreviation. This character takes the form of a small superscript 'ur' placed over a preceding letter, reflecting scribal conventions in manuscripts to represent the syllable or sound combination without expanding the full word. Its inclusion in the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block allows digital texts to accurately recreate historical orthography for scholarly work in philology and paleography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DD1 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Ur Above |
| 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 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DD1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DD1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dd1 |