U+FE4C "﹌" Double Wavy Overline Unicode Character
U+FE4C "﹌" Double Wavy Overline is a typographic symbol classified under the CJK Compatibility block, representing a decorative horizontal line composed of two parallel wavy strokes. Originally used in East Asian text formatting, particularly in Chinese and Japanese documents, it often served as an underline or overline for emphasis or annotation, analogous to a stylized version of the more common wavy overline. This character is part of a set of compatibility ideographic description symbols that were encoded to preserve the appearance of legacy character sets, though its use in modern digital text is rare, appearing mainly in historical or specialized contexts such as linguistic transcription or in the reproduction of older printed materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE4C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Double Wavy Overline |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Double Wavy 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 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe4c |
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 |