U+1DD4 "ᷔ" Combining Latin Small Letter Ae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᷔ
U+1DD4 "ᷔ" Combining Latin Small Letter Ae is a combining diacritical mark used in historical and phonetic transcriptions, primarily appearing above or attached to a base letter to modify its pronunciation or indicate a specific linguistic feature. This character, as part of the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block, represents a small Latin letter "ae" in a superscript or modifying form, often employed in medieval manuscripts or early modern orthographies to denote a sound change or a ligature in text encoding. Its use is specialized, mainly serving scholars working with ancient, palaeographic, or precise phonetic notation where the "ae" element needs to interact with an adjacent base character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DD4 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter Ae |
| 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 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DD4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DD4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dd4 |