U+0349 "͉" Combining Left Angle Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
͉
U+0349 "͉" Combining Left Angle Below is a diacritical mark used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to indicate a specific type of articulation, typically representing a slight retraction or backing of the tongue root during the production of a sound. It is placed below a base letter, functioning as a combining character that modifies the pronunciation of the preceding symbol in phonetic transcription. This mark is part of a broader set of combining diacritics that allow linguists and phoneticians to accurately capture subtle distinctions in spoken language. Its usage is most common in specialized linguistic texts and phonetic databases rather than in everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0349 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Combining Left Angle 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 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0349 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000349 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0349 |