U+0348 "͈" Combining Double Vertical Line Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
͈
U+0348 "͈" Combining Double Vertical Line Below is a combining diacritical mark used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and historical linguistic notation to indicate a specific articulatory feature, typically a retracted or tense pronunciation of the base character it attaches to. Visually, it consists of two short vertical lines placed directly underneath a letter, and it is often applied to consonants to denote a pharyngealized or emphatic quality, particularly in the transcription of languages like Arabic or in the study of Semitic phonetics. As a combining character, it does not stand alone but modifies the preceding character, requiring proper font and renderer support to display correctly in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0348 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Combining Double Vertical Line 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 | 0xCD 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0348 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000348 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0348 |