U+20EC "⃬" Combining Rightwards Harpoon with Barb Downwards Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+20EC "⃬" Combining Rightwards Harpoon with Barb Downwards is a diacritical mark designed for use in phonetic or linguistic transcription, where it combines with a base character to modify its meaning, specifically representing a rightward harpoon shape with a downward-pointing barb. This character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block and is often employed in the notation of tone or stress in certain scholarly contexts, such as in some Americanist phonetic systems or specialized linguistic descriptions. Its placement above or below a letter allows for precise annotation of prosodic features, acting as a visual indicator of a directional or falling contour in speech sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20EC |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Combining Rightwards Harpoon with Barb Downwards |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⃬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⃬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x83 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20ec |