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See also the currently published format: U0300.pdf, and the raw data parsed from NamesList.txt: 0300.json.

0300 Combining Diacritical Marks 036F

Ordinary diacritics

0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Greek varia" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Pinyin: marks Mandarin Chinese fourth tone" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "grave accent", "cp2": "0060" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter grave accent", "cp2": "02CB" }

0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "stress mark" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Greek oxia, tonos" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Pinyin: marks Mandarin Chinese second tone" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "apostrophe", "cp2": "0027" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "acute accent", "cp2": "00B4" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter prime", "cp2": "02B9" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter acute accent", "cp2": "02CA" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "greek tonos", "cp2": "0384" }

0302 COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "hat" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "circumflex accent", "cp2": "005E" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter circumflex accent", "cp2": "02C6" }

0303 COMBINING TILDE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: nasalization" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Vietnamese tone mark" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "tilde", "cp2": "007E" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "small tilde", "cp2": "02DC" }

0304 COMBINING MACRON

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "long" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Pinyin: marks Mandarin Chinese first tone" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "distinguish from the following" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "macron", "cp2": "00AF" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter macron", "cp2": "02C9" }

0305 COMBINING OVERLINE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "overscore, vinculum" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "connects on left and right" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "macron", "cp2": "00AF" }

0306 COMBINING BREVE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "short" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Greek vrachy" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "breve", "cp2": "02D8" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining cyrillic kavyka", "cp2": "A67C" }

0307 COMBINING DOT ABOVE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "derivative (Newtonian notation)" }

NOTICE_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA (withdrawn in 1976): palatalization" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "dot above", "cp2": "02D9" }

0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "double dot above, umlaut" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Greek dialytika" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "double derivative" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "diaeresis", "cp2": "00A8" }

0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "hoi" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "kerns left or right of circumflex over vowels" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Vietnamese tone mark" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter glottal stop", "cp2": "02C0" }

030A COMBINING RING ABOVE

CROSS_REF { "name2": "degree sign", "cp2": "00B0" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "ring above", "cp2": "02DA" }

030B COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Hungarian, Chuvash" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "quotation mark", "cp2": "0022" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter double prime", "cp2": "02BA" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "double acute accent", "cp2": "02DD" }

030C COMBINING CARON

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "hacek, V above" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Pinyin: marks Mandarin Chinese third tone" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "caron", "cp2": "02C7" }

030D COMBINING VERTICAL LINE ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "this is not the Greek tonos" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Marshallese" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter vertical line", "cp2": "02C8" }

030E COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Marshallese" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "quotation mark", "cp2": "0022" }

030F COMBINING DOUBLE GRAVE ACCENT

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Serbian and Croatian phonetics" }

0310 COMBINING CANDRABINDU

CROSS_REF { "name2": "devanagari sign candrabindu", "cp2": "0901" }

0311 COMBINING INVERTED BREVE

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining cyrillic palatalization", "cp2": "0484" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining cyrillic pokrytie", "cp2": "0487" }

0312 COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "cedilla above" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Latvian (but not used in decomposition)" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter turned comma", "cp2": "02BB" }

0313 COMBINING COMMA ABOVE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Greek psili, smooth breathing mark" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Americanist: ejective or glottalization" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter apostrophe", "cp2": "02BC" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining cyrillic psili pneumata", "cp2": "0486" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "armenian apostrophe", "cp2": "055A" }

0314 COMBINING REVERSED COMMA ABOVE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Greek dasia, rough breathing mark" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter reversed comma", "cp2": "02BD" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining cyrillic dasia pneumata", "cp2": "0485" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "armenian modifier letter left half ring", "cp2": "0559" }

0315 COMBINING COMMA ABOVE RIGHT

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter apostrophe", "cp2": "02BC" }

0316 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT BELOW
0317 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT BELOW
0318 COMBINING LEFT TACK BELOW

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter left tack", "cp2": "AB6A" }

0319 COMBINING RIGHT TACK BELOW

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter right tack", "cp2": "AB6B" }

031A COMBINING LEFT ANGLE ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: unreleased stop" }

031B COMBINING HORN

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Vietnamese" }

031C COMBINING LEFT HALF RING BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: open variety of vowel" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter down tack", "cp2": "02D5" }

031D COMBINING UP TACK BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: vowel raising or closing" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter up tack", "cp2": "02D4" }

031E COMBINING DOWN TACK BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: vowel lowering or opening" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter down tack", "cp2": "02D5" }

031F COMBINING PLUS SIGN BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: advanced or fronted articulation" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter plus sign", "cp2": "02D6" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining plus sign above", "cp2": "1AC8" }

0320 COMBINING MINUS SIGN BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: retracted or backed articulation" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "glyph may have small end-serifs" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter minus sign", "cp2": "02D7" }

0321 COMBINING PALATALIZED HOOK BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: palatalization" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter small j", "cp2": "02B2" }

0322 COMBINING RETROFLEX HOOK BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: retroflexion" }

0323 COMBINING DOT BELOW

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "nang" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: closer variety of vowel" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Americanist and Indo-Europeanist: retraction or retroflexion" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Semiticist: velarization or pharyngealization" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Vietnamese tone mark" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter up tack", "cp2": "02D4" }

0324 COMBINING DIAERESIS BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: breathy-voice or murmur" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter small h with hook", "cp2": "02B1" }

0325 COMBINING RING BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: voiceless" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "vocalic (in Latin transliteration of Indic sonorants)" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Madurese" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter low ring", "cp2": "02F3" }

0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Romanian, Latvian, Livonian" }

0327 COMBINING CEDILLA

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "French, Turkish, Azerbaijani" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "cedilla", "cp2": "00B8" }

0328 COMBINING OGONEK

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "nasal hook" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Americanist: nasalization" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Polish, Lithuanian" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "ogonek", "cp2": "02DB" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining open mark below", "cp2": "1AB7" }

0329 COMBINING VERTICAL LINE BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: syllabic" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Yoruba" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "German dialectology" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "may attach or not; shape may vary by local preferences" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter low vertical line", "cp2": "02CC" }

032A COMBINING BRIDGE BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: dental" }

032B COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: labialization" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter small w", "cp2": "02B7" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining inverted double arch above", "cp2": "1AC7" }

032C COMBINING CARON BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: voiced" }

032D COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Americanist: fronted articulation" }

032E COMBINING BREVE BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Hittite transcription" }

032F COMBINING INVERTED BREVE BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Americanist: fronted articulation (variant of 032D)" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Indo-Europeanist: semivowel" }

0330 COMBINING TILDE BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: creaky voice" }

0331 COMBINING MACRON BELOW

CROSS_REF { "name2": "low line", "cp2": "005F" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter low macron", "cp2": "02CD" }

0332 COMBINING LOW LINE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "underline, underscore" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "connects on left and right" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "low line", "cp2": "005F" }

0333 COMBINING DOUBLE LOW LINE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "double underline, double underscore" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "connects on left and right" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining equals sign below", "cp2": "0347" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "double low line", "cp2": "2017" }

Overstruck diacritics

0334 COMBINING TILDE OVERLAY

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: velarization or pharyngealization" }

0335 COMBINING SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
0336 COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "strikethrough" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "connects on left and right" }

0337 COMBINING SHORT SOLIDUS OVERLAY

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "short slash overlay" }

0338 COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "long slash overlay" }

Miscellaneous additions

0339 COMBINING RIGHT HALF RING BELOW
033A COMBINING INVERTED BRIDGE BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: apical" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining wide inverted bridge below", "cp2": "1DF9" }

033B COMBINING SQUARE BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: laminal" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "preferred glyph shape is a horizontal rectangle for IPA usage" }

033C COMBINING SEAGULL BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: linguolabial" }

033D COMBINING X ABOVE
033E COMBINING VERTICAL TILDE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "yerik" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used for Cyrillic yerik, indicates an omitted jer" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "this is not a palatalization mark" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining cyrillic palatalization", "cp2": "0484" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "vertical tilde", "cp2": "2E2F" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining cyrillic payerok", "cp2": "A67D" }

033F COMBINING DOUBLE OVERLINE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "connects on left and right" }

Vietnamese tone marks

Vietnamese-specific accent placement should be handled instead by specialized rendering of 0300 and 0301. Use of 0340 and 0341 is discouraged.

0340 COMBINING GRAVE TONE MARK

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0300 combining grave accent" }

0341 COMBINING ACUTE TONE MARK

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0301 combining acute accent" }

Additions for Greek

0342 COMBINING GREEK PERISPOMENI

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Greek-specific form of circumflex for rising-falling accent" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "alternative glyph is similar to an inverted breve" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining tilde", "cp2": "0303" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining inverted breve", "cp2": "0311" }

0343 COMBINING GREEK KORONIS

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0313 combining comma above" }

0344 COMBINING GREEK DIALYTIKA TONOS

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "use of this character is discouraged" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0308 0301" }

0345 COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "greek non-spacing iota below (1.0)" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "iota subscript" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "note special casing issues" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "greek ypogegrammeni", "cp2": "037A" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "greek capital letter iota", "cp2": "0399" }

Additions for IPA

0346 COMBINING BRIDGE ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: dentolabial" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining wide bridge above", "cp2": "20E9" }

0347 COMBINING EQUALS SIGN BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: alveolar" }

0348 COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: strong articulation" }

0349 COMBINING LEFT ANGLE BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: weak articulation" }

034A COMBINING NOT TILDE ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: denasal" }

IPA diacritics for disordered speech

034B COMBINING HOMOTHETIC ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: nasal escape" }

034C COMBINING ALMOST EQUAL TO ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: velopharyngeal friction" }

034D COMBINING LEFT RIGHT ARROW BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: labial spreading" }

034E COMBINING UPWARDS ARROW BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: whistled articulation" }

Grapheme joiner

034F COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "commonly abbreviated as CGJ" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "has no visible glyph" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "the name of this character is misleading; it does not actually join graphemes" }

Additions for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet

0350 COMBINING RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE
0351 COMBINING LEFT HALF RING ABOVE
0352 COMBINING FERMATA
0353 COMBINING X BELOW
0354 COMBINING LEFT ARROWHEAD BELOW
0355 COMBINING RIGHT ARROWHEAD BELOW
0356 COMBINING RIGHT ARROWHEAD AND UP ARROWHEAD BELOW
0357 COMBINING RIGHT HALF RING ABOVE

Miscellaneous additions

0358 COMBINING DOT ABOVE RIGHT

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Latin transliterations of the Southern Min dialects of Chinese" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining dot above left", "cp2": "1DF8" }

0359 COMBINING ASTERISK BELOW

CROSS_REF { "name2": "low asterisk", "cp2": "204E" }

035A COMBINING DOUBLE RING BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Kharoshthi transliteration" }

035B COMBINING ZIGZAG ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Latin abbreviation, Lithuanian phonetics and medievalist transcriptions" }

Double diacritics

035C COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "ligature tie below, papyrological hyphen" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "a common glyph alternate connects the horizontal midpoints of the characters" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining double breve", "cp2": "035D" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining double inverted breve", "cp2": "0361" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining ligature left half below", "cp2": "FE27" }

035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE
035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON
035F COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOW
0360 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining double tilde left half", "cp2": "FE22" }

0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "ligature tie" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining ligature left half", "cp2": "FE20" }

0362 COMBINING DOUBLE RIGHTWARDS ARROW BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "IPA: sliding articulation" }

Medieval superscript letter diacritics

These are letter diacritics written directly above other letters. They appear primarily in medieval Germanic manuscripts, but saw some usage as late as the 19th century in some languages.

0363 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER A
0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E
0365 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER I
0366 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER O
0367 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER U
0368 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER C
0369 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER D
036A COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER H
036B COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER M
036C COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER R
036D COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER T
036E COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER V
036F COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER X