What ︨ means
Put it after the base at the span's right edge.
︨ closes a span-wide mark; matching ︧ opens it, placed after the leftmost letter. Two-letter ties normally use ͜, the preferred complete double breve below. Keep halves and bases together; a lost half breaks the span.
It solves a layout problem: a diacritic can belong to a multi-letter unit, not one character. A 2011 Unicode proposal documents such bows in German dialect material dated 1927–1956 and in a 1950 study of early Christian monuments in Wales.
Why does the same bow mean different things?
Its job follows the notation, not the shape alone.
In the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, a triple inverted breve can mark a triphthong. In Rheinische Dokumenta, a 1980s Low German dialect system, a mark below sch distinguishes voiced /ʒ/ from voiceless /ʃ/. In those Welsh transcriptions the bows flag textual features, not a sound.
Specialist, typographic and linguistic; unsuitable for casual chat.
A lone ︨ is usually incomplete, not decorative.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA complete two-letter below ligature or tie.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
2Why does FE28 look broken in some fonts?
Font support. Half marks need glyph coverage and positioning; Unicode warns long spans can render poorly. A valid sequence may still look detached.
Can I use FE28 by itself?
No. It closes a paired span mark; alone it supplies no complete below-letter ligature and may look stray.
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How to type or find ︨
- Search it as
- fe28 · u+fe28 · right half · half below · ligature half · combining tie · triple breve · double breve below
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
︨\FE28Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.