U+032E "̮" Combining Breve Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+032E "̮" Combining Breve Below is a combining diacritical mark used in written text to modify a base letter by placing a small, curved, upward-facing mark underneath it, similar in shape to a miniature letter "u." It is commonly employed in linguistic transcriptions, such as in the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a short or shortened vowel sound or a specific phonetic quality, though it appears in various orthographies and transliteration systems. This character must follow the letter it modifies to combine correctly into a single glyph, and it works with a wide range of Unicode letters across different scripts, enhancing precision in representing spoken language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+032E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Breve Below |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Breve 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 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x032E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000032E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u032e |