U+0320 "̠" Combining Minus Sign Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0320 "̠" Combining Minus Sign Below is a diacritical mark used in linguistic notation to indicate that a sound or phonetic segment is retracted or articulated further back in the vocal tract than usual. This combining mark is placed beneath a base character, such as a letter, in systems like the International Phonetic Alphabet to modify its phonetic value without altering the base glyph itself. Its primary function is to provide fine-grained precision in transcribing speech sounds, particularly in fields like phonetics, phonology, and dialectology, where subtle differences in articulation are critical for accurate representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0320 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Minus Sign Below |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Minus 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 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0320 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000320 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0320 |