U+030E "̎" Combining Double Vertical Line Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+030E "̎" Combining Double Vertical Line Above is a combining diacritical mark designed to be placed over a preceding base character in a text, forming part of a composite glyph. It appears as two small vertical lines positioned above the letter, and its primary use is in phonetic transcriptions, particularly within the context of the International Phonetic Alphabet, where it can denote a specific suprasegmental feature such as a particular type of stress or tone. As a combining character, it does not stand alone but modifies the visual and phonetic interpretation of the character it is attached to, making it an important tool for precise linguistic notation in written languages and academic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+030E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Double Vertical Line Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Double Vertical Line Above |
| 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 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x030E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000030E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u030e |