U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING

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Decimal / Nº
703
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+02BF, officially named MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Modifier Letters block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Modifier Letter, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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703 Copied!
UTF-8 CA BF Copied!
UTF-16 02 BF Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 02 BF Copied!
URL-Quoted %CA%BF Copied!
HTML hex reference ʿ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'02BF' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u02BF Copied!
C and C++ \u02bf Copied!
C# \u02bf Copied!
CSS \0002BF Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(703) Copied!
Go \u02bf Copied!
JavaScript \u02BF Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{02bf} Copied!
JSON \u02BF Copied!
Java \u02BF Copied!
Lua \u{02BF} Copied!
Matlab char(703) Copied!
Perl \x{02BF} Copied!
PHP \u{02bf} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\02BF' Copied!
PowerShell `u{02BF} Copied!
Python \u02bf Copied!
Ruby \u{02bf} Copied!
Rust \u{02bf} Copied!