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U+02DC · SMALL TILDE

Small Tilde

  • CodepointU+02DC
  • NameSMALL TILDE
  • Decimal732
  • 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 widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+02DC (˜) is SMALL TILDE, 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+0303 ◌̃ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0020 + U+0303 ◌̃. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ˜

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CB 9C2 bytes
UTF-1602DC1 code unit
UTF-32000002DC4 bytes
HTML named&tilde;named character reference
HTML named&DiacriticalTilde;named character reference
HTML decimal&#732;
HTML hex&#x2DC;
CSS\2DCin content: "…"
JavaScript\u02DC
JSON\u02DC
Python\u02DC
Python\N{SMALL TILDE}by name
Java / C#\u02DC
C / C++\u02DCuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2DC}
Go\u02DC
Ruby\u02DC
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(732)
URL-encoded%CB%9Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0020 + U+0303 ◌̃
NFKDU+0020 + U+0303 ◌̃
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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+007E~Tilde U+1FC0῀Greek Perispomeni U+2053⁓Swung Dash U+223C∼Tilde Operator
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Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

All in block →
U+02D6˖Modifier Letter Plus Sign U+02D7˗Modifier Letter Minus Sign U+02D8˘Breve U+02D9˙Dot Above U+02DA˚Ring Above U+02DB˛Ogonek 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 U+02E2ˢModifier Letter Small S