U+FE2E "︮" Combining Cyrillic Titlo Left Half Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FE2E "︮" Combining Cyrillic Titlo Left Half is a combining mark used in historical Cyrillic manuscript and early printed text traditions to indicate a scribal abbreviation or the omission of letters, often in religious or liturgical contexts. It represents the left portion of the titlo diacritic, a horizontal or slightly wavy line placed above a word or letter cluster in Old Church Slavonic and other early Slavic writings. When combined with its counterpart, the Combining Cyrillic Titlo Right Half (U+FE2F), it forms a complete titlo that spans across the characters it annotates. This character is part of the Unicode standard for supporting the accurate digital representation of historic Slavic texts, enabling scholars to preserve and analyze the orthographic conventions of medieval manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+FE2E
Version Added 8.0
Name Combining Cyrillic Titlo 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 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFE2E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FE2E
C/C++/Java Escape \ufe2e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Non-breaking (“Glue”)
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Cyrillic
Script Extensions Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend