U+034B "͋" Combining Homothetic Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
͋
U+034B "͋" Combining Homothetic Above is a combining diacritical mark used primarily in phonetic transcription, notably within the scholarly tradition of the International Phonetic Alphabet to indicate a specific type of articulation. This small, tilde-like symbol, resembling a reversed or homothetic version of a standard combining tilde, is placed directly above a base character to modify its sound, often denoting a simultaneous or co-articulated constriction in the vocal tract. As a combining character, it is not meant to stand alone but instead attaches to a letter to convey nuanced pronunciation details that are essential for precise linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+034B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Combining Homothetic Above |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ͋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ͋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCD 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x034B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000034B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u034b |