U+1DD6 "ᷖ" Combining Latin Small Letter Av Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᷖ
U+1DD6 "ᷖ" Combining Latin Small Letter Av is a combining diacritical mark used primarily in historical or scholarly text encoding to modify a preceding base character, specifically to indicate that the letter is followed by or associated with the sound or letter "av". It belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block and is typically applied to Latin script characters in phonetic or medieval manuscript contexts to denote a specific pronunciation or abbreviation. This character is rarely used in modern writing, but it serves an important function for linguists and paleographers who need to accurately represent ancient or specialized orthographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DD6 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter Av |
| 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 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DD6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DD6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dd6 |