Combining Ligature Right Half

It supplies the right half of a two-letter ligature mark.

︡ never works alone. Put it after the second base letter while ︠ goes after the first, and together they draw one tie across both letters. Its documented home is specialist romanization and catalog data, especially ALA-LC treatment of Russian, other Cyrillic-script languages, and Church Slavic, where the ligature links two Latin letters as one transcription unit.

As of 2026, the available evidence here does not establish an earliest manuscript attestation for FE21 itself. It documents an encoding path from double-wide diacritics used in romanization and catalog interchange, so do not date the real-world tie from the Unicode date alone.

How do I type the ligature tie?

Use both halves across two letters, or use the single spanning tie.

For the two-half form, place ︠ after the first letter and ︡ after the second: t︠s︡. If you are creating new text rather than preserving legacy data, use t͡s with U+0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE, the single mark Unicode guidance prefers for this job. Copy it from the palette above when you only need the character once.

In MARC-8 or ANSEL-derived records, keeping the half pair can matter for faithful conversion. Otherwise the single spanning tie is usually easier to enter and more portable.

Why does this mark fail to connect?

The font may not support the complete combining sequence.

︡ is a combining mark, so its position depends on the base letter, font, and shaping support. A font can contain the code point yet lack the positioning needed to make the halves meet across letters. Text can therefore survive intact while the tie looks detached, misplaced, or missing elsewhere. Test the whole sequence, not the isolated half.