U+1DFB "᷻" Combining Deletion Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷻
U+1DFB "᷻" Combining Deletion Mark is a diacritical mark used in historical and paleographic texts to indicate that a letter or a sequence of letters has been deleted or removed from the original manuscript, typically by a scribe or editor. It is placed directly above or combined with a base character to signal an editorial deletion without erasing the original text, making it a valuable tool for scholars studying manuscript corrections, scribal practices, and textual transmission in disciplines like medieval studies or philology. This glyph belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and is designed to overlay seamlessly with other characters to preserve the integrity of the source document.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DFB |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Combining Deletion Mark |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DFB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DFB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dfb |