U+1E946 "𞥆" Adlam Gemination Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞥆
U+1E946 "𞥆" Adlam Gemination Mark is a diacritical sign used in the Adlam script, which was created in the 1980s for writing the Fula language of West Africa. This mark is placed above or on a consonant character to indicate that the consonant should be pronounced with gemination, or doubled length, which can affect meaning in Fula. It is part of the Unicode block for Adlam, introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, and helps represent the phonetic distinctions necessary for accurate transcription and reading of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E946 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Adlam Gemination Mark |
| Block | Adlam |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞥆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞥆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA5 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDD46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E946 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udd46 |