U+02C7 Caron
U+02C7 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 character is also known as hacek.
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+02C7 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 2 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A caron is a diacritic mark (◌̌) 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 (e → ě; [e] → [ʲe]), iotation, or postalveolar articulation (c → č; [ts] → [tʃ]). In Salishan languages, it often represents a uvular consonant (x → x̌; [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 an inverted circumflex; or with the left stroke thicker than the right, like the usual serif form of the letter "v" (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 typefaces.
The caron is not to be confused with the breve (◌̆, which is curved rather than angled):
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 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: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A3 BE |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A3 BE |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | F3 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A2 A7 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A3 BE |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | A1 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 8E |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8F A2 B0 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | AA B1 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | AA B1 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A2 A7 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 21 26 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 30 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 30 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 2A 31 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 2A 31 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 30 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 22 27 0F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 A7 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | FF |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | FF |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | FF |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | FF |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 85 AF |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 85 AF |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | 70 |
| 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 | '< |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CARON | |
| MODIFIER LETTER HACEK | |
| Spacing Modifier Letters | |
| Modifier Letter | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Caron | |
| ✘ | |
| Caron | |
| Caron | |
| ✘ | |
| Caron | |
| Caron | |
| Caron | |
| Caron | |
| Caron | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Caron | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Caron | |
| Yes | |
| Caron | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Caron | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Caron | |
| Bopomofo Latin | |
| R |