U+031F "̟" Combining Plus Sign Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+031F "̟" Combining Plus Sign Below is a diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a more advanced or fronted articulation of a base letter. Placed directly underneath a character, it modifies the sound by showing that the tongue is positioned slightly farther forward in the mouth than for the standard pronunciation. This combining mark is applied to various consonant and vowel symbols, enabling precise representation of subtle speech sounds in linguistic notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+031F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Plus Sign Below |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Plus Sign 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 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x031F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000031F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u031f |