U+1DEB "ᷫ" Combining Latin Small Letter F Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1DEB "ᷫ" Combining Latin Small Letter F is a combining diacritical mark used in medieval and early modern textual scholarship, specifically within the field of Latin paleography and editorial notation, where it is placed above a base letter to denote a scribal abbreviation or a specific phonetic modification, often indicating the omission of the letter 'f' in a contraction. It belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and allows precise annotation of historical manuscripts without altering the original base character.

General Properties

Code Point U+1DEB
Version Added 7.0
Name Combining Latin Small Letter F
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 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1DEB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001DEB
C/C++/Java Escape \u1deb

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