U+032F "̯" Combining Inverted Breve Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+032F "̯" Combining Inverted Breve Below is a diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription to modify a base letter by placing a small, downward-pointing arch or brief inverted curve beneath it. This mark most commonly indicates that the associated sound is pronounced as a nonsyllabic or semivowel, often appearing in linguistic contexts such as the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a glide or a vowel that loses its syllabic status, like the final element in a diphthong. It is distinct from the combining breve above and serves as a precise tool for marking phonetic detail in written language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+032F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Inverted Breve Below |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Inverted 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x032F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000032F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u032f |