COMBINING DOT ABOVE LEFT

Codepoint

U+1DF8

Literal Character

 ᷸

Name

COMBINING DOT ABOVE LEFT

Sketch

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Control Character

no

Block

Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement

Subblock

Miscellaneous marks

UTF-8 byte encoding

e1 b7 b8

UTF-16 byte encoding

1d f8 (big endian)

HTML Entity

᷸

Perl string literal

\x{1DF8}

Comments

• used in Syriac as a disambiguation dot
• used in Typicon Cyrillic, where the dot may have a square appearance
• used in the Latin-based Americanist phonetic notation of Franz Boas

See Also

U+0358: combining dot above right
U+0740: syriac feminine dot