U+20DC COMBINING FOUR DOTS ABOVE

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Decimal / Nº
8412
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Unknown
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
230
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+20DC, officially named COMBINING FOUR DOTS ABOVE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Diacriticals For Symbols block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as NON-SPACING FOUR DOTS ABOVE.

Categorized technically as a Nonspacing Mark, this character typically falls under the Zinh 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 Unknown character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8412 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 83 9C Copied!
UTF-16 20 DC Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 DC Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%83%9C Copied!
HTML hex reference ⃜ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'20DC' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u20DC Copied!
C and C++ \u20dc Copied!
C# \u20dc Copied!
CSS \0020DC Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8412) Copied!
Go \u20dc Copied!
JavaScript \u20DC Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{20dc} Copied!
JSON \u20DC Copied!
Java \u20DC Copied!
Lua \u{20DC} Copied!
Matlab char(8412) Copied!
Perl \x{20DC} Copied!
PHP \u{20dc} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\20DC' Copied!
PowerShell `u{20DC} Copied!
Python \u20dc Copied!
Ruby \u{20dc} Copied!
Rust \u{20dc} Copied!