U+FE28 "︨" Combining Ligature Right Half Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE28 "︨" Combining Ligature Right Half Below is a combining diacritical mark designed for use in historical and scholarly text encoding, particularly in medieval and early modern manuscripts where ligatures or connected letterforms were common. It appears as a small, unobtrusive line segment placed underneath the base character, indicating that the right half of a ligature component is present, often used to represent scribal abbreviations or specific typographic conventions. This character belongs to the Combining Half Marks block, which includes a range of similar marks for left and right halves, enabling precise digital reproduction of complex script features that would otherwise be lost in plain text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE28 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Combining Ligature Right 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe28 |