U+1DF9 "᷹" Combining Wide Inverted Bridge Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷹
U+1DF9 "᷹" Combining Wide Inverted Bridge Below is a diacritical mark intended for use in phonetic or orthographic contexts, such as in the transcription of certain African or minority languages. It is designed to be placed under a base letter, forming a broad inverted arc, to modify that letter's pronunciation, often indicating a specific type of breathy or lax articulation. This character is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and is used primarily in scholarly writing or specialized digital text where precise phonetic representation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DF9 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Combining Wide Inverted Bridge Below |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᷹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᷹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB7 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1df9 |