U+FE21 "︡" Combining Ligature Right Half Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE21 "︡" Combining Ligature Right Half is a typographic mark used in historical and specialized text processing to form a visual ligature by connecting with its left half counterpart, U+FE20. It is designed to sit over or between characters to indicate that two or more letters should be joined together as a single glyph, often in handwriting or medieval manuscript transcription. This character is part of the Combining Half Marks block and serves a distinct purpose in digital encoding for preserving the appearance of continuous, connected script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE21 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Ligature Right 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 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe21 |