U+2040 "⁀" Character Tie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⁀
U+2040 "⁀" Character Tie is a typographical symbol primarily used in linguistics and textual annotation to indicate a close phonetic or semantic connection, such as a liaison or a fused grammatical unit between two adjacent characters or words. It is also known as the "undertie" due to its appearance as a small, curved arc placed beneath a sequence of letters, serving as a graphic cue that the elements should be treated as a single, cohesive segment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2040 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Character Tie |
| 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 0x81 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2040 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002040 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2040 |