U+1DFA "᷺" Combining Dot Below Left Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1DFA "᷺" Combining Dot Below Left is a diacritical mark used in the Latin script, designed to be placed beneath a base character to indicate a specific phonetic modification, such as a retracted or slightly altered articulation in linguistic transcription. It belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block, meaning it is intended to combine with a preceding character to form a single glyph without adding extra spacing. This mark is particularly useful in specialized fields like phonetics or orthography development, where precise notation of subtle sound variations is required, and it supports the representation of languages or dialects that require such detailed diacritic distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DFA |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Combining Dot Below Left |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below Left |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᷺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᷺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB7 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DFA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DFA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dfa |