U+1DE7 "ᷧ" Combining Latin Small Letter Alpha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1DE7 "ᷧ" Combining Latin Small Letter Alpha is a diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet and certain medieval manuscript studies, where it is placed above a base letter to modify its sound, typically indicating a specific vocalic quality derived from the Greek or Latin alpha. This character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and is designed to combine with a preceding base character, altering its phonetic value without adding a separate spacing glyph. Its usage remains highly specialized, appearing primarily in academic contexts such as linguistics or historical text encoding, where precision in representing pronunciation or orthographic variation is required.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᷧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᷧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xB7 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1DE7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001DE7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1de7 |
Unicode Properties