Combining Half Marks

Combining Half Marks is a Unicode block containing diacritical combining characters for spanning multiple characters.

Combining Half Marks
RangeU+FE20..U+FE2F
(16 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCyrillic (2 char.)
Inherited (14 char.)
Symbol setsHalf diacritics
Assigned16 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.1 (1993)4 (+4)
5.1 (2008)7 (+3)
7.0 (2014)14 (+7)
8.0 (2015)16 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Combining Half Marks[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+FE2x◌︠◌︡◌︢◌︣◌︤◌︥◌︦◌︧◌︨◌︩◌︪◌︫◌︬◌︭◌︮◌︯
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Combining Half Marks block:

VersionFinal code points[a]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.1U+FE20..FE234(to be determined)
5.1U+FE24..FE263L2/07-085RN3222REverson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Marjanen, Antti; Dunderberg, Ismo; Baines, John; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2007-03-15), Proposal to add additional characters for Coptic and Latin in the UCS
L2/07-150Whistler, Ken (2007-05-10), "G", WG2 Consent Docket
L2/07-118R2Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
L2/07-268N3253 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.22", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
7.0U+FE27..FE2D7L2/08-392Pentzlin, Karl (2008-10-25), Proposal to encode a combining diacritical mark for Low German dialect writing
L2/09-028N3571Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27), Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
L2/09-281Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-06), COMBINING TRIPLE INVERTED BREVE and other triple-length combining marks
L2/09-225RMoore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "C.14", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
L2/10-353N3915Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-23), Preliminary Proposal to enable the use of Combining Triple Diacritics in Plain Text
L2/10-416RMoore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "C.4", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
N3903 (pdf, doc)"10.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
L2/11-224N4078Proposal to enable the use of Combining Triple Diacritics in Plain Text, 2011-05-22
L2/11-261R2Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C34", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
L2/11-296RN4131Everson, Michael (2011-10-28), Proposal for encoding the Caucasian Albanian script in the SMP of the UCS
N4103"11.15 Combining Triple Diacritics in plain text", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
N4243Everson, Michael; Gippert, Jost (2012-02-14), Documentation for Two Characters FE2B and FE2C for Caucasian Albanian (N4131R)
L2/12-112Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), "131-C22", UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes
N4253 (pdf, doc)"M59.01e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
8.0U+FE2E..FE2F2L2/13-164Cleminson, Ralph; Birnbaum, David (2013-07-25), Feedback from Experts on Cyrillic proposals
L2/13-165Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "4", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
L2/13-132Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C23", UTC #136 Minutes
L2/13-139N4475Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2013-08-07), Proposal to Encode Combining Half Marks Used for Cyrillic Supralineation in Unicode
N4553 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.04a", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA

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