What ᷃ means
It marks a Glagolitic letter that stands for a whole word.
Glagolitic is an early Slavic script. This Glagolitic suspension mark is described as a contextual form of the titlo, an abbreviation sign used in Glagolitic and Cyrillic writing. An early-15th-century Croatian manuscript shows a marked letter standing for a whole word; the stroke kept it from being mistaken for an ordinary letter, a preposition, or a numeral. Shortening recurring words saved writing space.
Why does it look like a breve?
It may resemble a breve; context gives it its meaning.
It attaches to a base letter and normally has no separate spacing. If a chart shows , the dotted circle marks the base's position; it is a display placeholder, not part of ᷃. A 2025 font comparison showed some Latin fonts rendering the mark like a breve or caron; the resemblance is visual, not a change of meaning.
An archival and editorial mark whose reading depends on the writing tradition around it.
A breve is a different mark; visual similarity does not make it an abbreviation sign.
Drift: A 2025 Unicode proposal reports Vietnamese Wikimedia editors using ᷃ as an editorial stand-in for the Middle Vietnamese apex and requests a Vietnamese annotation.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsThe marked letter stands for a whole word.
Don't confuse it with
1Combining suspension mark vs combining breve: the breve is a separate vowel mark. Some fonts make ᷃ resemble it, but it does not mark a Glagolitic abbreviation.
Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
1Why does ᷃ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ᷃
- Search it as
- Glagolitic abbreviation mark · Glagolitic abbreviation · titlo · breve accent · combining diacritic · Vietnamese apex · Vietnamese historical spelling mark · Irish abbreviation stroke
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᷃\1DC3\u1DC3 in a string literal; place the resulting mark after its base letter.᷃ after the base letter in HTML text.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.