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U+02D8 · BREVE

Breve

  • CodepointU+02D8
  • NameBREVE
  • Decimal728
  • BlockSpacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0–U+02FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySk — Modifier Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+02D8 (˘) is BREVE, a modifier symbol 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).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0020 + U+0306 ◌̆ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0020 + U+0306 ◌̆. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ˘

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CB 982 bytes
UTF-1602D81 code unit
UTF-32000002D84 bytes
HTML named&Breve;named character reference
HTML named&breve;named character reference
HTML decimal&#728;
HTML hex&#x2D8;
CSS\2D8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u02D8
JSON\u02D8
Python\u02D8
Python\N{BREVE}by name
Java / C#\u02D8
C / C++\u02D8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2D8}
Go\u02D8
Ruby\u02D8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(728)
URL-encoded%CB%98percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0020 + U+0306 ◌̆
NFKDU+0020 + U+0306 ◌̆
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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+02C7ˇCaron U+A67E꙾Cyrillic Kavyka
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Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

All in block →
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