U+203F "‿" Undertie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+203F "‿" Undertie is a typographic symbol that resembles a small, inverted breve or curved line placed below the baseline, primarily used in linguistics and phonetics to indicate a close connection or liaison between two adjacent letters or sounds, such as in the transcription of continuous speech or certain African languages. It is distinct from a standard tie bar (U+0361) which appears above characters, and its subtle curvature helps denote a linking pronunciation without breaking the visual flow of text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+203F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Undertie |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Connector Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ‿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ‿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x80 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x203F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000203F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u203f |