U+02D9 DOT ABOVE

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Decimal / Nº
729
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a compatibility composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+02D9, officially named DOT ABOVE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Modifier Letters block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as SPACING DOT ABOVE.

Categorized technically as a Modifier Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a compatibility composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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729 Copied!
UTF-8 CB 99 Copied!
UTF-16 02 D9 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 02 D9 Copied!
URL-Quoted %CB%99 Copied!
HTML hex reference ˙ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'02D9' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u02D9 Copied!
C and C++ \u02d9 Copied!
C# \u02d9 Copied!
CSS \0002D9 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(729) Copied!
Go \u02d9 Copied!
JavaScript \u02D9 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{02d9} Copied!
JSON \u02D9 Copied!
Java \u02D9 Copied!
Lua \u{02D9} Copied!
Matlab char(729) Copied!
Perl \x{02D9} Copied!
PHP \u{02d9} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\02D9' Copied!
PowerShell `u{02D9} Copied!
Python \u02d9 Copied!
Ruby \u{02d9} Copied!
Rust \u{02d9} Copied!