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The tie bar, or slur, may occur over or under the pair of letters, ⟨◌͡◌⟩ or ⟨◌͜◌⟩, depending on the preference of the writer, e.g. for legibility or to allow room for other diacritics.
Diacritical mark
◌͡◌, ◌͜◌
(IPA)Marks two letters as forming a single segment.
(palaeography)Marks two letters in a transcription for what is a single ligature in the original.
(The stone) of Bodovoc. Here he lies, son of Catotigirnus (and) great-grandson of Eternalis Vedomavus.
Usage notes
(IPA): The segment may be an affricate like ~ , a doubly articulated consonant like ~ , a click like ~ , or, less commonly, a diphthong like ~ . Instead of a tie bar / slur, one of the letters may be made superscript (especially with affricates and clicks: ⟨dᶾ, ᵑǂ⟩). The diacritic is most commonly placed over the letters being linked together, but there is no semantic significance to that placement, and it may appear below for legibility. It may be omitted altogether if no confusion would arise.
English
Diacritical mark
◌͡◌, ◌͜◌
(lexicography)Used to mark digraphs such as the consonants ⟨c͜h, n͡g, s͜h, t͜h, z͜h⟩ for IPA /t͡ʃ, ŋ, ʃ, θ, ʒ/, ⟨ᴋ͜ʜ⟩ for Scottish /x/, or the rhotic vowels ⟨a͡r, e͡r⟩ for IPA /ɑɹ, ɜɹ/.
Ancient Greek
Diacritical mark
◌͜◌
(papyrology)Used to mark an ambiguous string of letters as being a single word, as due to the general lack of word-spacing they might otherwise be read separately.
