What is the difference between Combining Caron and Combining Breve?

Combining Caron is U+030C in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Combining Breve is U+0306 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Caron?

The HTML entity for Combining Caron (U+030C) is ̌.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Breve?

The HTML entity for Combining Breve (U+0306) is ̆.

Are Combining Caron and Combining Breve the same Unicode character?

No. Combining Caron is U+030C (decimal 780) and Combining Breve is U+0306 (decimal 774). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Combining Caron and Combining Breve?

Combining Caron (U+030C) encodes as CC 8C in UTF-8. Combining Breve (U+0306) encodes as CC 86 in UTF-8.

Combining Caron vs Combining Breve

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

Combining Caron

U+030C

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Combining Breve

U+0306

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Property Comparison

Property	Combining Caron	Combining Breve
Codepoint	`U+030C`	`U+0306`
Decimal	`780`	`774`
HTML Entity	`̌`	`̆`
HTML Decimal	`̌`	`̆`
HTML Hex	`̌`	`̆`
UTF-8	`CC 8C`	`CC 86`
UTF-16	`03 0C`	`03 06`
UTF-32	`0000030C`	`00000306`
CSS Escape	`\30C`	`\306`
JS Escape	`\u030C`	`\u0306`
Python Escape	`\u030C`	`\u0306`
URL Encoded	`%CC%8C`	`%CC%86`
Category	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`
Block	`Combining Diacritical Marks`	`Combining Diacritical Marks`
Script	`Inherited`	`Inherited`
Bidi Class	`NSM`	`NSM`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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