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U+02DB · OGONEK

Ogonek

  • CodepointU+02DB
  • NameOGONEK
  • Decimal731
  • 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+02DB (˛) is OGONEK, 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+0328 ◌̨ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0020 + U+0328 ◌̨. 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 9B2 bytes
UTF-1602DB1 code unit
UTF-32000002DB4 bytes
HTML named&ogon;named character reference
HTML decimal&#731;
HTML hex&#x2DB;
CSS\2DBin content: "…"
JavaScript\u02DB
JSON\u02DB
Python\u02DB
Python\N{OGONEK}by name
Java / C#\u02DB
C / C++\u02DBuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2DB}
Go\u02DB
Ruby\u02DB
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(731)
URL-encoded%CB%9Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0020 + U+0328 ◌̨
NFKDU+0020 + U+0328 ◌̨
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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+0069iLatin Small Letter I U+0131ıLatin Small Letter Dotless I U+0269ɩLatin Small Letter Iota U+026AɪLatin Letter Small Capital I U+037AͺGreek Ypogegrammeni U+03B9ιGreek Small Letter Iota U+0456іCyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I U+04CFӏCyrillic Small Letter Palochka U+1FBEιGreek Prosgegrammeni U+2139ℹInformation Source U+2148ⅈDouble-Struck Italic Small I U+2170ⅰSmall Roman Numeral One U+2373⍳APL Functional Symbol Iota U+FF49ｉFullwidth Latin Small Letter I U+1D422𝐢Mathematical Bold Small I U+1D456𝑖Mathematical Italic Small I
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Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

All in block →
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+02DA˚Ring Above 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 U+02E1ˡModifier Letter Small L