What ᷝ means
It marks an abbreviated part of a medieval word.
It is a medieval scribal abbreviation, not a letter with one fixed sound or expansion. A transcription that keeps the mark shows which part the manuscript abbreviates instead of replacing it with an expanded spelling.
In examples from medieval Latin, Old Norse and Portuguese, nᷝ stands for nihil (“nothing”), ꞇᷝ for til (“to”), and gᷝ for geral (“general”). The same mark does not expand to the same string each time.
Why does combining l float or disappear?
It attaches to a preceding base letter.
In digital text, the base comes first and ᷝ immediately follows it. Without that base, or when a font cannot position the mark, it may appear over a dotted circle, float, or be missing.
A specialist mark for transcribing medieval abbreviations in Latin-script texts.
Alone, it has no base letter to attach to; the abbreviated reading is hard to recover.
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1Why does ᷝ look missing?
It has no spacing of its own, so it needs a preceding base. A font without a suitable mark position may show it over a dotted circle or fail to display it.
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ᷝ\1DDDᷝ and JSON uses \u1DDD; put either immediately after the base character.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.