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Glyph for U+0303
Source: Noto Sans

U+0303 Combining Tilde

U+0303 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0300 to U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Nonspacing Mark and inherits its script property from the preceding character.

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 3 other glyphs. In text U+0303 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:

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
771
UTF-8 CC 83
UTF-16 03 03
UTF-32 00 00 03 03
URL-Quoted %CC%83
HTML hex reference ̃
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌̃
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) DE
LATEX \~
AGL: Latin-4 tildecomb
AGL: Latin-5 tildecomb
Adobe Glyph List tildecmb
Adobe Glyph List tildecomb

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name COMBINING TILDE
Unicode 1 Name NON-SPACING TILDE
Block Combining Diacritical Marks
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Script Inherited
Bidirectional Category Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class Above
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Case Folding Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
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+0303 Combining Tilde
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
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 Extend
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 Maybe
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
NFKC Quick Check Maybe
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
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 Extend
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Extend
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R