U+2E46 "⹆" Inverted Low Kavyka with Kavyka Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2E46 "⹆" Inverted Low Kavyka with Kavyka Above is a punctuation mark used in the Slavic and early Cyrillic typographic tradition, specifically as a diacritical or editorial symbol found in certain historical manuscripts and printed texts. It represents a double combining mark that typically indicates a specific phonetic or prosodic feature, such as stress or tonal nuance, in Old Church Slavonic or other related liturgical languages. This character is part of the Supplemental Punctuation block and is rarely used in modern digital text, appearing mainly in scholarly editions or specialized linguistic transcriptions where precise annotation of archaic pronunciation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E46 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Inverted Low Kavyka with Kavyka Above |
| Block | Supplemental Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⹆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⹆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB9 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E46 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e46 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Break After |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |