U+1DD2 "᷒" Combining Us Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷒
U+1DD2 "᷒" Combining Us Above is a combining diacritical mark used primarily in medieval and early modern European manuscript studies, where it appears attached above a base letter to indicate abbreviation or phonetic modification. It represents the Latin letter "u" or a similar rounded shape superimposed on characters like "m" or "n" to denote omitted letters or nasalization, a convention common in scribal shorthand for languages such as Old English or Latin. This character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block and is placed in the Unicode standard to preserve historical textual features, allowing digital representation of critical editions and paleographic transcriptions without altering the underlying base glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DD2 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Us 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 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DD2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DD2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dd2 |