What is the difference between Combining Long Stroke Overlay and Combining Short Stroke Overlay?

Combining Long Stroke Overlay is U+0336 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Combining Short Stroke Overlay is U+0335 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 Long Stroke Overlay?

The HTML entity for Combining Long Stroke Overlay (U+0336) is ̶.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Short Stroke Overlay?

The HTML entity for Combining Short Stroke Overlay (U+0335) is ̵.

Are Combining Long Stroke Overlay and Combining Short Stroke Overlay the same Unicode character?

No. Combining Long Stroke Overlay is U+0336 (decimal 822) and Combining Short Stroke Overlay is U+0335 (decimal 821). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Combining Long Stroke Overlay and Combining Short Stroke Overlay?

Combining Long Stroke Overlay (U+0336) encodes as CC B6 in UTF-8. Combining Short Stroke Overlay (U+0335) encodes as CC B5 in UTF-8.

Combining Long Stroke Overlay vs Combining Short Stroke Overlay

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 Long Stroke Overlay

U+0336

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Combining Short Stroke Overlay

U+0335

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Property Comparison

Property	Combining Long Stroke Overlay	Combining Short Stroke Overlay
Codepoint	`U+0336`	`U+0335`
Decimal	`822`	`821`
HTML Entity	`̶`	`̵`
HTML Decimal	`̶`	`̵`
HTML Hex	`̶`	`̵`
UTF-8	`CC B6`	`CC B5`
UTF-16	`03 36`	`03 35`
UTF-32	`00000336`	`00000335`
CSS Escape	`\336`	`\335`
JS Escape	`\u0336`	`\u0335`
Python Escape	`\u0336`	`\u0335`
URL Encoded	`%CC%B6`	`%CC%B5`
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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