U+20DC "⃜" Combining Four Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⃜
U+20DC "⃜" Combining Four Dots Above is a combining diacritical mark that is placed over a base character to modify its appearance or meaning in text, specifically by adding four small dots arranged in a square pattern above the letter. This glyph is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks block in Unicode and is used in specialized linguistic, phonetic, or scholarly contexts, such as in certain transcription systems for African languages or historical scripts, where it may indicate a specific tonal or articulatory feature not represented by the base character alone.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20DC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Four Dots Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Four Dots Above |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⃜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⃜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x83 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20dc |