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U+02BE · MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING

Modifier Letter Right Half Ring

  • CodepointU+02BE
  • NameMODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING
  • Decimal702
  • BlockSpacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0–U+02FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLm — Modifier Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+02BE (ʾ) is MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING, a modifier letter in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

How to type ʾ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CA BE2 bytes
UTF-1602BE1 code unit
UTF-32000002BE4 bytes
HTML decimalʾ
HTML hexʾ
CSS\2BEin content: "…"
JavaScript\u02BE
JSON\u02BE
Python\u02BE
Python\N{MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING}by name
Java / C#\u02BE
C / C++\u02BEuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2BE}
Go\u02BE
Ruby\u02BE
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(702)
URL-encoded%CA%BEpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0027'Apostrophe U+0060`Grave Accent U+00B4´Acute Accent U+02B9ʹModifier Letter Prime U+02BBʻModifier Letter Turned Comma U+02BCʼModifier Letter Apostrophe U+02BDʽModifier Letter Reversed Comma U+02C8ˈModifier Letter Vertical Line U+02CAˊModifier Letter Acute Accent U+02CBˋModifier Letter Grave Accent U+02F4˴Modifier Letter Middle Grave Accent U+0374ʹGreek Numeral Sign U+0384΄Greek Tonos U+055A՚Armenian Apostrophe U+055D՝Armenian Comma U+05D9יHebrew Letter Yod
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Characters built on ʾ

U+1E9AẚLatin Small Letter A with Right Half Ring
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Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

All in block →
U+02B8ʸModifier Letter Small Y U+02B9ʹModifier Letter Prime U+02BAʺModifier Letter Double Prime U+02BBʻModifier Letter Turned Comma U+02BCʼModifier Letter Apostrophe U+02BDʽModifier Letter Reversed Comma U+02BFʿModifier Letter Left Half Ring U+02C0ˀModifier Letter Glottal Stop U+02C1ˁModifier Letter Reversed Glottal Stop U+02C2˂Modifier Letter Left Arrowhead U+02C3˃Modifier Letter Right Arrowhead U+02C4˄Modifier Letter Up Arrowhead