Combining Parentheses Overlay

U+1ABE

Combining Parentheses Overlay is the Unicode character ᪾ at codepoint U+1ABE in the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

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UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
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How to Use Combining Parentheses Overlay

To use the Combining Parentheses Overlay symbol (᪾) in HTML, insert the entity ᪾ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ᪾ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1ABE';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u1ABE' evaluates to ᪾. In Python source, write '\u1ABE'.

The character encodes to E1 AA BE as UTF-8 bytes and 1ABE as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 6846.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026