U+FE20 "︠" Combining Ligature Left Half Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE20 "︠" Combining Ligature Left Half is a special-purpose code point used in digital typography to facilitate the display of complex ligatures, particularly in historical or scholarly text where letters are joined in a continuous, overlapping form. Unlike standard characters, this combining mark does not stand alone but is designed to attach to the left side of a base character, indicating that the glyph should be visually merged or tied to a preceding or following character to form part of a ligature. Its primary application is in the rendering of ancient scripts or specialized phonetic notations, where precise control over character spacing and connection is necessary to preserve the original manuscript's appearance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE20 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Ligature Left Half |
| Block | Combining Half Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe20 |