U+20D3 "⃓" Combining Short Vertical Line Overlay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+20D3 "⃓" Combining Short Vertical Line Overlay is a combining diacritical mark used in digital text to superimpose a short vertical line directly over the preceding base character, typically for linguistic or mathematical notation. It belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block, where it serves to modify a letter, number, or symbol by adding a vertical stroke across its center. This overlay can indicate a specific phonetic value, such as a modified vowel or consonant in certain transcription systems, or function as a visual negation or cancellation in symbolic math contexts. The character does not stand alone but attaches to and alters the appearance of the character immediately before it.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20D3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Short Vertical Line Overlay |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Short Vertical Bar Overlay |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Overlay |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⃓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⃓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x83 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20D3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020D3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20d3 |