U+0307 was added to Unicode in version 1.1. It belongs to the block
Combining Diacritical Marks in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and inherits its script property from the preceding character. The character is also known as derivative (Newtonian notation).
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 19 other glyphs. In text U+0307 behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the Interpunct ( · ), or to the glyphs 'combining dot above' ( ̇ ) and 'combining dot below' ( ̣ ) which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in Central European languages and Vietnamese.
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 775 |
| UTF-8 | CC 87 |
| UTF-16 | 03 07 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 07 |
| URL-Quoted | %CC%87 |
| HTML-Escape | ̇ |
| alias | derivative (Newtonian notation) |
| LaTeX | \. |
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Age (age) | 1.1 |
| Unicode Name (na) | COMBINING DOT ABOVE |
| Unicode 1 Name (na1) | NON-SPACING DOT ABOVE |
| Block (blk) | Diacriticals |
| General Category (gc) | Nonspacing Mark |
| Script (sc) | Inherited |
| Bidirectional Category (bc) | Nonspacing Mark |
| Combining Class (ccc) | Above |
| Decomposition Type (dt) | None |
| Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
0307 |
| Lowercase (Lower) | ✘ |
| Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
0307 |
| Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
0307 |
| Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
| Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
0307 |
| Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
0307 |
| Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
0307 |
| Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
0307 |
| Case Folding (cf) |
0307 |
| ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
| Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✘ |
| Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
| Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
| Cased (Cased) | ✘ |
| Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
| Case Ignorable (CI) | ✔ |
| Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
| Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | ✘ |
| Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | ✘ |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | ✘ |
| Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | ✘ |
| Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | ✘ |
| Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | ✘ |
| Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
| Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
| Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
| Diacritic (Dia) | ✔ |
| East Asian Width (ea) | Ambiguous |
| Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
| FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
0307 |
| Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Extend |
| Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✘ |
| Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✔ |
| Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
| Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
| Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
| Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
| ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
| Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
| ID Start (IDS) | ✘ |
| IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
| IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
| Indic Matra Category (InMC) | NA |
| Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
| ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
| Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
| Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
| Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
| Joining Type (jt) | Transparent |
| Line Break (lb) | Combining Mark |
| Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘ |
| Math (Math) | ✘ |
| Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘ |
| NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Maybe |
| NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
0307 |
| NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Maybe |
| NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
| Numeric Type (nt) | None |
| Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
| Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | ✘ |
| Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | ✘ |
| Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | ✘ |
| Other ID Continue (OIDC) | ✘ |
| Other ID Start (OIDS) | ✘ |
| Other Lowercase (OLower) | ✘ |
| Other Math (OMath) | ✘ |
| Other Uppercase (OUpper) | ✘ |
| Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
| Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
| Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
| Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
| Sentence Break (SB) | Extend |
| Simple Case Folding (scf) |
0307 |
| Script Extension (scx) | Inherited |
| Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
| STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
| Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
| Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
| Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
| Word Break (WB) | Extend |
| White Space (WSpace) | ✘ |
| XID Continue (XIDC) | ✔ |
| XID Start (XIDS) | ✘ |
| Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | ✘ |
| Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | ✘ |
| Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | ✘ |
| Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | ✘ |