U+1DE6 "ᷦ" Combining Latin Small Letter Z Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᷦ
U+1DE6 "ᷦ" Combining Latin Small Letter Z is a combining diacritical mark used in historical and scholarly texts, particularly in medieval manuscript studies and phonetics, to modify a preceding base letter by adding a small superscript z shape above or below it. This character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block and is typically employed in transcription systems to indicate a specific phonetic or orthographic variation, such as palatalization or a fricative quality, without standing alone as an independent glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DE6 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter Z |
| 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 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DE6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DE6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1de6 |