U+1DFE "᷾" Combining Left Arrowhead Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᷾
U+1DFE "᷾" Combining Left Arrowhead Above is a diacritical mark used in certain scholarly or linguistic transcriptions to modify a base character by placing a small left-pointing arrowhead above it. This combining mark typically indicates a specific phonetic or prosodic feature, such as a leftward or retroflex articulation, though its application is highly specialized and uncommon in standard orthographies. It is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and is intended for use with systems like the International Phonetic Alphabet or extended Latin character sets in academic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DFE |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Combining Left Arrowhead Above |
| 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DFE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DFE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1dfe |