U+1DFC "᷼" Combining Double Inverted Breve Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷼
U+1DFC "᷼" Combining Double Inverted Breve Below is a diacritical mark used in medieval and phonetic transcriptions to modify a base letter, typically indicating a short, extra-short, or fleeting vowel sound beneath the character it attaches to. It combines the shape of two inverted breve marks placed side by side below a letter, and it is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block. This character is primarily employed in scholarly editions of ancient texts, such as Old English or Latin manuscripts, where it helps represent subtle pronunciation details that standard orthography does not capture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DFC |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Combining Double Inverted Breve Below |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Double Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᷼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᷼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB7 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dfc |