˘ Breve

Codes

JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.

Properties

Decomposition

BREVE has a compatibility decomposition (compat) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.

• U+0020 Space
• U+0306 Combining Breve

Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

• ː U+02D0 Modifier Letter Triangular Colon
• ˑ U+02D1 Modifier Letter Half Triangular Colon
• ˒ U+02D2 Modifier Letter Centred Right Half Ring
• ˓ U+02D3 Modifier Letter Centred Left Half Ring
• ˔ U+02D4 Modifier Letter Up Tack
• ˕ U+02D5 Modifier Letter Down Tack
• ˖ U+02D6 Modifier Letter Plus Sign
• ˗ U+02D7 Modifier Letter Minus Sign
• ˙ U+02D9 Dot Above
• ˚ U+02DA Ring Above
• ˛ U+02DB Ogonek
• ˜ U+02DC Small Tilde
• ˝ U+02DD Double Acute Accent
• ˞ U+02DE Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook
• ˟ U+02DF Modifier Letter Cross Accent
• ˠ U+02E0 Modifier Letter Small Gamma

All 80 characters: Spacing Modifier Letters.

Official reference

• Unicode code chart: Spacing Modifier Letters (PDF, unicode.org)

Questions people ask

What is the HTML code for ˘?

Use the named entity ˘, or ˘ (decimal) or ˘ (hex).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+02D8?

CB 98 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %CB%98.

How do I write U+02D8 in JavaScript or Python?

JavaScript: \u02D8. Python: \u02D8.

Source

Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.

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