U+302C "〬" Ideographic Departing Tone Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+302C "〬" Ideographic Departing Tone Mark is a small, diagonal stroke used in East Asian typography, specifically as a diacritical mark within the Chinese rime dictionary tradition to denote the departing tone (qùshēng) of a character in Middle Chinese phonology. It appears as a narrow, angled line placed above or beside an ideograph, functioning as a phonetic notation rather than a standalone punctuation mark, and is part of the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, where it aids in historical linguistic studies and the accurate annotation of classical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+302C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Departing Tone Mark |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above Right |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 〬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 〬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x80 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x302C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000302C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u302c |