U+02DC "˜" Small Tilde Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
˜
U+02DC "˜" Small Tilde is a diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a specific nasalized or modified pronunciation of a vowel or consonant. It is encoded as a spacing or combining modifier letter, meaning it can appear independently or be placed above other characters to alter their sound, such as in the representation of nasal vowels in languages like Portuguese or French. Unlike the standard tilde that functions as a punctuation mark or abbreviation, the Small Tilde is primarily a typographical and linguistic tool, ensuring precise phonetic notation in text processing and scholarly writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02DC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Tilde |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Tilde |
| 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+0303 Combining Tilde |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ˜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ˜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCB 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02dc |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̃" U+0303 Combining Tilde |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̃" U+0303 Combining Tilde |
| 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 |