U+1DF2 "ᷲ" Combining Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᷲ
U+1DF2 "ᷲ" Combining Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis is a diacritical mark used in historical and scholarly Latin text transcription, specifically designed to be placed above a preceding base character to indicate that it carries an umlaut or diaeresis, representing a modified "a" sound. This combining character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and is primarily utilized in medieval studies or phonetics to denote vowel quality changes, such as those found in older Latin manuscripts or linguistic reconstructions. It differs from standalone accented characters by attaching directly to the previous letter, ensuring accurate rendering in digital text without altering standard letter spacing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DF2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis |
| 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 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DF2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DF2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1df2 |