U+20D8 "⃘" Combining Ring Overlay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⃘
U+20D8 "⃘" Combining Ring Overlay is a combining diacritical mark that is placed directly over another character to which it is attached, forming a single visual glyph. It is designed to be used with preceding base characters in digital text, creating a small circular ring shape layered on top of the base character for typographic and linguistic purposes. This mark can be applied to modify letters in various transcription systems or specialized notation, though its use is relatively rare compared to more common combining marks like accents or tildes. In modern computing, it is supported within the broader Unicode framework to enable consistent rendering of complex text across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20D8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Ring Overlay |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Ring 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20d8 |