U+02D8 Breve
U+02D8 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 Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Space, Combining Breve. 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+02D8 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:
A breve ( BREEV, less often BREV, neuter form of the Latin brevis "short, brief") is the diacritic mark ◌̆, shaped like the bottom half of a circle. As used in Ancient Greek, it is also called brachy, βραχύ. It resembles the caron (◌̌, the wedge or háček in Czech, mäkčeň in Slovak) but is rounded, in contrast to the angular tip of the caron. In many forms of Latin, ◌̆ is used for a shorter, softer variant of a vowel, such as "Ĭ", where the sound is nearly identical to the English /i/. (See: Latin IPA)
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 728 |
| UTF-8 | CB 98 |
| UTF-16 | 02 D8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 D8 |
| URL-Quoted | %CB%98 |
| HTML hex reference | ˘ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌˘ |
| HTML named entity | ˘ |
| HTML named entity | ˘ |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | F4 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A2 A8 |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8F A2 AF |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | AA A2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | AA A2 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A2 A8 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 B8 37 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 2F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 2F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 2A 22 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 2A 22 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 2F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 22 28 0F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | A2 |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 A8 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | F9 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | F9 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | F9 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 85 A0 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 85 A0 |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | 80 |
| LATEX | \textasciibreve |
| AGL: Latin-1 | breve |
| AGL: Latin-2 | breve |
| AGL: Latin-3 | breve |
| AGL: Latin-4 | breve |
| AGL: Latin-5 | breve |
| Adobe Glyph List | breve |
| digraph | '( |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BREVE | |
| SPACING BREVE | |
| Spacing Modifier Letters | |
| Modifier Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| compatibility | |
| Space Combining Breve | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Breve | |
| Breve | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Breve | |
| Breve | |
| Breve | |
| Breve | |
| Breve | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Breve | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Space Combining Breve | |
| No | |
| Space Combining Breve | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Breve | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Breve | |
| R |