U+02BA "ʺ" Modifier Letter Double Prime Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+02BA "ʺ" Modifier Letter Double Prime is a spacing modifier letter used primarily in linguistics and phonetics to denote secondary stress in phonetic transcriptions within the International Phonetic Alphabet, where it appears as a superscript double prime mark placed before a stressed syllable to indicate a lesser degree of emphasis than primary stress. It can also represent a specific diacritic in certain transliteration systems or act as a typographic symbol distinct from the inch or minute symbol.

General Properties

Code Point U+02BA
Version Added 1.1
Name Modifier Letter Double Prime
Block Spacing Modifier Letters
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ʺ
HTML Hex Encoding ʺ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xCA 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x02BA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000002BA
C/C++/Java Escape \u02ba

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter