U+FE27 "︧" Combining Ligature Left Half Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE27 "︧" Combining Ligature Left Half Below is a combining diacritical mark that appears in the Unicode standard within the Combining Half Marks block, specifically designed to be placed beneath a base character to indicate the left portion of a ligature. This character is typically used in specialized typographic and linguistic contexts, such as historical or scholarly text rendering, where it helps represent the incomplete or broken form of a ligature that would normally span across two or more characters. It is not commonly employed in everyday writing but serves a precise technical function in digital typesetting and manuscript transcription, allowing for the accurate encoding of partial glyphs in complex scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE27 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Combining Ligature Left Half Below |
| Block | Combining Half Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE27 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe27 |