Unicode Character "˘" U+02D8 Breve
Unicode Version 15.1
˘
Summary
The unicode character "˘" at code point U+02D8 is Breve. It is a character in the Spacing Modifier Letters block and is part of the Common script. The character is a modifier symbol. The UTF-8 encoding of "˘" is 0xCB 0x98 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x02D8.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02D8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Breve |
| Block | Spacing Modifier Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "SP" U+0020 Space "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | ˘ ˘ |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ˘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ˘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCB 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02d8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Expands On NFKC | Yes |
| Expands On NKFD | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |