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

Combining Short Solidus Overlay is U+0337 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Combining Long Solidus Overlay is U+0338 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 Short Solidus Overlay?

The HTML entity for Combining Short Solidus Overlay (U+0337) is ̷.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Long Solidus Overlay?

The HTML entity for Combining Long Solidus Overlay (U+0338) is ̸.

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

No. Combining Short Solidus Overlay is U+0337 (decimal 823) and Combining Long Solidus Overlay is U+0338 (decimal 824). They are separate codepoints.

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

Combining Short Solidus Overlay (U+0337) encodes as CC B7 in UTF-8. Combining Long Solidus Overlay (U+0338) encodes as CC B8 in UTF-8.

Combining Short Solidus Overlay vs Combining Long Solidus 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 Short Solidus Overlay

U+0337

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Combining Long Solidus Overlay

U+0338

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Property Comparison

Property	Combining Short Solidus Overlay	Combining Long Solidus Overlay
Codepoint	`U+0337`	`U+0338`
Decimal	`823`	`824`
HTML Entity	`̷`	`̸`
HTML Decimal	`̷`	`̸`
HTML Hex	`̷`	`̸`
UTF-8	`CC B7`	`CC B8`
UTF-16	`03 37`	`03 38`
UTF-32	`00000337`	`00000338`
CSS Escape	`\337`	`\338`
JS Escape	`\u0337`	`\u0338`
Python Escape	`\u0337`	`\u0338`
URL Encoded	`%CC%B7`	`%CC%B8`
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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