U+0338 "̸" Combining Long Solidus Overlay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0338 "̸" Combining Long Solidus Overlay is a diacritical mark applied after a preceding character in plain text, primarily used to visually strike through or negate that base character by rendering a diagonal slash across it. In scholarly and mathematical contexts, it serves to create constructs like "not equal to" or "not a member of" without a dedicated precomposed glyph, effectively acting as a typographic overlay for negation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0338 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Long Solidus Overlay |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Long Slash Overlay |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Overlay |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ̸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ̸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCC 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0338 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000338 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0338 |