U+FE4E "﹎" Centreline Low Line Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FE4E "﹎" Centreline Low Line is a compatibility ideographic punctuation mark used in East Asian typography, specifically as a variant of the low line or underscore that is positioned at the centerline of the character space rather than at the baseline. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility Forms block, intended to preserve the layout of older East Asian text where such a centered glyph was necessary to properly align with other vertical or horizontal lines in ideographic writing systems. While functionally similar to the ordinary underscore U+005F, the Centreline Low Line is distinct in its vertical placement, making it useful for specialized formatting in historical or technical documents that require precise line alignment with CJK characters.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
﹎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
﹎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xB9 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFE4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FE4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufe4e |
Unicode Properties