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Glyph for U+02C7
Source: Noto Sans

U+02C7 Caron

U+02C7 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+02B0 to U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Modifier Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as hacek.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+02C7 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A caron is a diacritic mark (◌̌) commonly placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation.

The symbol is common in the Baltic, Slavic, Finnic, Samic and Berber languages.

The use of the caron differs according to the orthographic rules of a language. In most Slavic and other European languages it indicates present or historical palatalization (eě; [e] → [ʲe]), iotation, or postalveolar articulation (cč; [ts] → [tʃ]). In Salishan languages, it often represents a uvular consonant (x → ; [x] → [χ]). When placed over vowel symbols, the caron can indicate a contour tone, for instance the falling and then rising tone in the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese. It is also used to decorate symbols in mathematics, where it is often pronounced ("check").

The caron is shaped approximately like a small letter "v". For serif typefaces, the caron generally has one of two forms: either symmetrical, essentially identical to a rotated circumflex; or with the left stroke thicker than the right, like the usual serif form of the letter "v" (but without serifs). The latter form is often preferred by Czech designers for use in Czech, while for other uses the symmetrical form tends to predominate, as it does also among sans-serif fonts.

The caron is not to be confused with the breve (◌̆), which has a curved bottom, while the caron is pointed (see illustration).

Representations

System Representation
711
UTF-8 CB 87
UTF-16 02 C7
UTF-32 00 00 02 C7
URL-Quoted %CB%87
HTML hex reference ˇ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌ˇ
HTML named entity ˇ
HTML named entity ˇ
alias hacek
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A2 A7
Encoding: ISO-8859-2 (hex bytes) B7
Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes) B7
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) FF
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) A1
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) 8E
LATEX \textasciicaron
AGL: Latin-1 caron
AGL: Latin-2 caron
AGL: Latin-3 caron
AGL: Latin-4 caron
AGL: Latin-5 caron
Adobe Glyph List caron
digraph '<

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CARON
Unicode 1 Name MODIFIER LETTER HACEK
Block Spacing Modifier Letters
General Category Modifier Letter
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Case Folding Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+02C7 Caron
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R