U+FE29 "︩" Combining Tilde Left Half Below Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FE29 "︩" Combining Tilde Left Half Below is a diacritical mark designed for use in complex text rendering, particularly in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) and other East Asian scripts, where it modifies the base glyph by attaching a tilde symbol to the lower left portion of the character. It belongs to the Combining Half Marks block, which provides partial diacritics that allow for fine-grained positioning and animation effects in technical and scholarly typesetting. This character is distinct from full combining tilde below characters because it only covers half of the typical tilde shape, enabling precise adjustments when stacking multiple marks or aligning with specific glyph contours. Its primary function is to indicate a phonetic or tonal variation in specialized linguistic notation, and it relies on proper font support and text shaping engines to render correctly in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+FE29
Version Added 7.0
Name Combining Tilde Left Half Below
Block Combining Half Marks
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Below
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ︩
HTML Hex Encoding ︩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB8 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFE29
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FE29
C/C++/Java Escape \ufe29

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Non-breaking (“Glue”)
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Inherited
Script Extensions Inherited
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend