Combining Half Marks

Combining Half Marks is a Unicode block containing diacritic mark parts for spanning multiple characters.

Combining Half Marks
Range	U+FE20..U+FE2F (16 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Cyrillic (2 char.) Inherited (14 char.)
Symbol sets	Half diacritics
Assigned	16 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.1	4 (+4)
5.1	7 (+3)
7.0	14 (+7)
8.0	16 (+2)
Note: [1][2]

Block

Combining Half Marks^[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+FE2x

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◌︤

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◌︨

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Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0

History

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

Version	Final code points[lower-alpha 1]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.1	U+FE20..FE23	4			(to be determined)
5.1	U+FE24..FE26	3	L2/07-085R	N3222R	Everson, 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
			L2/07-150		Whistler, Ken (2007-05-10), "G", WG2 Consent Docket
			L2/07-118R2		Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (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
7.0	U+FE27..FE2D	7	L2/08-392		Pentzlin, Karl (2008-10-25), Proposal to encode a combining diacritical mark for Low German dialect writing
			L2/09-028	N3571	Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27), Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
			L2/09-281		Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-06), COMBINING TRIPLE INVERTED BREVE and other triple-length combining marks
			L2/09-225R		Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "C.14", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
			L2/10-353	N3915	Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-23), Preliminary Proposal to enable the use of Combining Triple Diacritics in Plain Text
			L2/10-416R		Moore, 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
			L2/11-224	N4078	Proposal to enable the use of Combining Triple Diacritics in Plain Text, 2011-05-22
			L2/11-261R2		Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C34", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
			L2/11-296R	N4131	Everson, 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
				N4243	Everson, Michael; Gippert, Jost (2012-02-14), Documentation for Two Characters FE2B and FE2C for Caucasian Albanian (N4131R)
			L2/12-112		Moore, 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
8.0	U+FE2E..FE2F	2	L2/13-164		Cleminson, Ralph; Birnbaum, David (2013-07-25), Feedback from Experts on Cyrillic proposals
			L2/13-165		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "4", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
			L2/13-132		Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C23", UTC #136 Minutes
			L2/13-139	N4475	Andreev, 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
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

• Combining Diacritical Marks (Unicode block)
• Combining character
• Cyrillic script in Unicode

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.