U+20DC "⃜" Combining Four Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+20DC "⃜" Combining Four Dots Above is a combining diacritical mark that is placed over a base character to modify its appearance or meaning in text, specifically by adding four small dots arranged in a square pattern above the letter. This glyph is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks block in Unicode and is used in specialized linguistic, phonetic, or scholarly contexts, such as in certain transcription systems for African languages or historical scripts, where it may indicate a specific tonal or articulatory feature not represented by the base character alone.
General Properties
Code Point
U+20DC
Name
Combining Four Dots Above
Unicode 1.0 Name
Non-Spacing Four Dots Above
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
⃜
HTML Hex Encoding
⃜
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x83 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x20DC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000020DC
C/C++/Java Escape
\u20dc
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Inherited