U+007E Tilde
U+007E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 8 other glyphs. In text U+007E behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “tilde” for use in screen reading software.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The tilde () ˜ or ~, is a grapheme with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning "title" or "superscription". Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter but, for historical reasons, it is also used in standalone form within a variety of contexts.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 126 |
UTF-8 | 7E |
UTF-16 | 00 7E |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 7E |
URL-Quoted | %7E |
HTML hex reference | ~ |
LATEX | \textasciitilde |
AGL: Latin-1 | asciitilde |
AGL: Latin-2 | asciitilde |
AGL: Latin-3 | asciitilde |
AGL: Latin-4 | asciitilde |
AGL: Latin-5 | asciitilde |
Adobe Glyph List | asciitilde |
digraph | '? |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
TILDE | |
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Basic Latin | |
Math Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Narrow | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |