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Meaning of combining character | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters).

Examples

“You can display c with macron (c̄) by merging the combining character macron with the letter c.”

“Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

combining form combining forms combining mark combining weight combjelly comblainite