U+20E9 "⃩" Combining Wide Bridge Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+20E9 "⃩" Combining Wide Bridge Above is a diacritical mark intended to be placed over a base character, where it appears as a horizontal line or bar spanning the width of the character to form a sort of "bridge." This combining character is used in specialized textual contexts, particularly in phonetic or linguistic notation, to indicate a specific modification or ligature, such as marking a vowel as being pronounced with a wide, prolonged, or linking quality. It belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks block and is designed to visually overlay the preceding character, altering its phonetic or orthographic significance without adding a separate space.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20E9 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Combining Wide Bridge 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 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20E9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020E9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20e9 |