U+031E "̞" Combining down Tack Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+031E "̞" Combining down Tack Below is a diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription, primarily within the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a lowered or more open articulation of a base letter, such as a vowel or consonant. It appears as a small horizontal line with a downward pointing stem placed directly beneath the character it modifies, altering the sound’s quality without changing the main symbol itself. This combining mark is often applied to symbols like e̞ or o̞ to denote mid-centralized or opened vowels in linguistic analysis and language documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+031E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining down Tack Below |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing down Tack Below |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ̞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ̞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCC 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x031E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000031E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u031e |