What is the difference between Combining Inverted Breve and Combining Circumflex Accent?

Combining Inverted Breve is U+0311 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Combining Circumflex Accent is U+0302 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 Inverted Breve?

The HTML entity for Combining Inverted Breve (U+0311) is ̑.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Circumflex Accent?

The HTML entity for Combining Circumflex Accent (U+0302) is ̂.

Are Combining Inverted Breve and Combining Circumflex Accent the same Unicode character?

No. Combining Inverted Breve is U+0311 (decimal 785) and Combining Circumflex Accent is U+0302 (decimal 770). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Combining Inverted Breve and Combining Circumflex Accent?

Combining Inverted Breve (U+0311) encodes as CC 91 in UTF-8. Combining Circumflex Accent (U+0302) encodes as CC 82 in UTF-8.

Combining Inverted Breve vs Combining Circumflex Accent

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 Inverted Breve

U+0311

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Combining Circumflex Accent

U+0302

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Property Comparison

Property	Combining Inverted Breve	Combining Circumflex Accent
Codepoint	`U+0311`	`U+0302`
Decimal	`785`	`770`
HTML Entity	`̑`	`̂`
HTML Decimal	`̑`	`̂`
HTML Hex	`̑`	`̂`
UTF-8	`CC 91`	`CC 82`
UTF-16	`03 11`	`03 02`
UTF-32	`00000311`	`00000302`
CSS Escape	`\311`	`\302`
JS Escape	`\u0311`	`\u0302`
Python Escape	`\u0311`	`\u0302`
URL Encoded	`%CC%91`	`%CC%82`
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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