U+1DD7 "ᷗ" Combining Latin Small Letter C Cedilla Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1DD7 "ᷗ" Combining Latin Small Letter C Cedilla is a diacritical mark used in historical or scholarly phonetic transcriptions, where it is placed above or adjacent to a base letter to modify its pronunciation, specifically adding a cedilla to a small Latin letter c to indicate a softened or palatalized sound, as seen in certain medieval orthographies or linguistic notations. This combining character, which must be attached to a preceding base character to appear correctly, is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block and is rarely encountered in modern text, primarily surviving in specialized academic editions of older manuscripts or reconstructed phonetic systems. Its appearance is a small, superscript version of a Latin c with a cedilla beneath it, and it serves as a precise typographic tool for representing subtle sound shifts without introducing separate spacing characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+1DD7
Version Added 5.1
Name Combining Latin Small Letter C Cedilla
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 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1DD7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001DD7
C/C++/Java Escape \u1dd7

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Inherited
Script Extensions Inherited
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend