U+035A "͚" Combining Double Ring Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
͚
U+035A "͚" Combining Double Ring Below is a diacritical mark used in phonetic transcription, particularly within the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a specific type of articulation or modification of a base letter. This combining character appears below the character it follows, typically representing a fricative or trilled sound produced with the tongue tip or blade, and it is most commonly associated with the representation of certain slavic or retroflex consonants. As a combining mark, it does not stand alone but is instead applied to a base letter to alter its phonetic value, making it a specialized tool in linguistic notation and scholarly works on phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+035A |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Combining Double Ring 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 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x035A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000035A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u035a |