U+02CB Modifier Letter Grave Accent
U+02CB was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Spacing Modifier Letters in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Modifier Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Bopomofo, Latin.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+02CB forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The grave accent (◌̀) ( GRAYV or GRAHV) is a diacritical mark used to varying degrees in French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and many other western European languages as well as for a few unusual uses in English. It is also used in other languages using the Latin alphabet, such as Mohawk and Yoruba, and with non-Latin writing systems such as the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets and the Bopomofo or Zhuyin Fuhao semi-syllabary. It has no single meaning, but can indicate pitch, stress, or other features.
For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed characters are available. For less-used and compound diacritics, a combining character facility is available. A free-standing version of the symbol (`), commonly called a backtick, also exists and has acquired other uses.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 715 |
| UTF-8 | CB 8B |
| UTF-16 | 02 CB |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 CB |
| URL-Quoted | %CB%8B |
| HTML hex reference | ˋ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌ˋ |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A3 BF |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A3 BF |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A3 BF |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A8 41 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A8 41 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni02CB |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni02CB |
| Adobe Glyph List | fourthtonechinese |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT | |
| MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE | |
| Spacing Modifier Letters | |
| Modifier Letter | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| Yes | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Modifier Letter Grave Accent | |
| Bopomofo Latin | |
| R |