What ᫋ means
It marks a vowel with three acute strokes.
The Ormulum is a Middle English work, written in the 1160s and 1170s by the Augustinian canon Orrm to help priests preach Gospel teaching in English. Its spelling system marks vowel length and distinguishes some consonants; this triple acute is part of its vowel notation.
Orm used one-, two-, and three-stroke accents over vowels, but their exact sound values are uncertain. A 1952 interpretation suggests they reminded readers to pronounce a vowel. In cramped manuscript lines, a mark can look as if it sits over the next letter; it is conventionally read with its vowel.
How do I type the Ormulum triple acute?
Enter the vowel before the combining mark.
In a Unicode-aware editor, enter the base vowel followed by U1ACB; the mark attaches to the preceding character. A mark entered alone has no base to carry it.
If it floats or sits off-center, the font may lack support for positioning combining marks over base letters.
Specialist and historical: it belongs to Orm’s medieval spelling system, not ordinary modern writing.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ᫋ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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᫋\1ACBCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.