U+0354 "͔" Combining Left Arrowhead Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
͔
U+0354 "͔" Combining Left Arrowhead Below is a diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription, primarily within the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a specific modification of a base letter's sound, such as a slight retroflexion or a lowered articulation. It is placed underneath a character, like a letter of the Latin alphabet, and serves to combine visually with that character to form a single glyph, rather than standing alone as an independent symbol. This combining diacritic is distinct from separate punctuation or arrows, as its purpose is always to modify the phonetic value of the preceding base character in linguistic notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0354 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Combining Left Arrowhead 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 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0354 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000354 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0354 |