U+02EC "ˬ" Modifier Letter Voicing Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ˬ
U+02EC "ˬ" Modifier Letter Voicing is a diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription, primarily within the International Phonetic Alphabet to indicate a type of secondary articulation or a slight change in a sound's quality, such as a breathy or murmured voice. It is a small, superscript-like symbol that resembles a sideways tilde or a lowered wavy line, and it is placed above or near a base letter to modify its pronunciation. This character is part of the Spacing Modifier Letters block and is employed in linguistic documentation to represent subtle voicing distinctions that are not captured by standard letters, helping scholars and phoneticians transcribe the precise acoustic features of speech sounds in various languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02EC |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Voicing |
| Block | Spacing Modifier Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ˬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ˬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCB 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02ec |