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U+02DA · RING ABOVE

Ring Above

  • CodepointU+02DA
  • NameRING ABOVE
  • Decimal730
  • 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+02DA (˚) is RING ABOVE, 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+030A ◌̊ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0020 + U+030A ◌̊. 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 9A2 bytes
UTF-1602DA1 code unit
UTF-32000002DA4 bytes
HTML named&ring;named character reference
HTML decimal&#730;
HTML hex&#x2DA;
CSS\2DAin content: "…"
JavaScript\u02DA
JSON\u02DA
Python\u02DA
Python\N{RING ABOVE}by name
Java / C#\u02DA
C / C++\u02DAuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2DA}
Go\u02DA
Ruby\u02DA
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(730)
URL-encoded%CB%9Apercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0020 + U+030A ◌̊
NFKDU+0020 + U+030A ◌̊
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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+00B0°Degree Sign U+2218∘Ring Operator U+25CB○White Circle U+25E6◦White Bullet U+2E30⸰Ring Point
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Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

All in block →
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+02D8˘Breve U+02D9˙Dot 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 U+02E0ˠModifier Letter Small Gamma