U+FE49 "﹉" Dashed Overline Unicode Character
U+FE49 "﹉" Dashed Overline is a typographic symbol that represents a broken or dashed horizontal line positioned above the text, primarily used in East Asian typography within compatibility CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) blocks. It is part of a set of overline and underline modifiers designed to work with vertical text layouts, where the dashed overline can indicate emphasis, a phonetic annotation placeholder, or serve as a visual separation marker in specialized documents. This character, often appearing as a sequence of short dashes, differs from a continuous overline by providing a less obtrusive visual cue, and its usage is largely historical or specific to legacy systems, as modern Unicode text frequently replaces it with more universal combining marks or styled formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE49 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Dashed Overline |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Dashed Overscore |
| Block | CJK Compatibility Forms |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "‾" U+203E Overline |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE49 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe49 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̅" U+0305 Combining Overline |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̅" U+0305 Combining Overline |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |