U+0300 "̀" Combining Grave Accent Unicode Character

U+0300 "̀" Combining Grave Accent is a non-spacing diacritical mark used in digital text to modify the pronunciation or meaning of a preceding base character, such as a letter. It belongs to the category of combining characters, meaning it does not occupy its own visual space but instead appears directly above or attached to the character before it, as seen in the French "è" or the Italian "à." This accent often indicates a specific tonal contour in languages like Vietnamese or a shift in vowel quality in various European scripts. In Unicode encoding, it allows for flexible representation of accented letters without requiring a dedicated precomposed character, making it essential for accurate text rendering across diverse writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0300
Version Added	1.1
Name	Combining Grave Accent
Unicode 1.0 Name	Non-Spacing Grave
Block	Combining Diacritical Marks
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class	Above
Bidirectional Class	Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	̀
HTML Hex Encoding	̀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCC 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0300
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000300
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0300

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Maybe
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Maybe
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Inherited
Script Extensions	Cherokee Coptic Cyrillic Greek Latin Old Permic Sunuwar Tai Le
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend