U+02CF "ˏ" Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+02CF "ˏ" Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent is a diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a lowered or retracted articulation of the preceding or following sound. It appears as a small, angled stroke placed low on the baseline, resembling a reversed acute accent, and serves to modify the phonetic quality of a letter by specifying a slight shift in tongue position. This character is classified as a modifier letter, distinct from combining diacritics, because it is designed to stand alone as a spacing symbol rather than attaching directly to another character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02CF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Modifier Letter Low Acute |
| Block | Spacing Modifier Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ˏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ˏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCB 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02CF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02cf |