U+1DCA "᷊" Combining Latin Small Letter R Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1DCA "᷊" Combining Latin Small Letter R Below is a diacritical mark used in historical or scholarly text encoding to indicate a specific modification to a base letter, typically in medieval or phonetic transcription contexts, where a small Latin "r" is placed beneath the preceding character to denote a rhotic or r-coloring influence. This combining character does not stand alone but attaches to a base letter, allowing for precise representation of certain sounds in ancient manuscripts or linguistic notation systems. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital preservation of specialized writing traditions, particularly in fields like Old English or Indo-European studies where such diacritics appear.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1DCA
Name
Combining Latin Small Letter R Below
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
᷊
HTML Hex Encoding
᷊
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xB7 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1DCA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001DCA
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1dca
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Inherited