Combining Grapheme Joiner

Combining Grapheme Joiner is a combining diacritical mark, meaning it doesn't stand alone — it attaches to whichever character comes immediately before it in the text, visually merging to form an accented letter or annotated symbol.

Unicode block: Combining Diacritical Marks (U+0300–U+036F). Combining marks are "zero-width" characters that attach to the previous letter to add an accent, rather than existing as their own visible glyph — this is how Unicode builds accented letters that don't have a precomposed code point.

At Unicode code point U+034F (decimal 847), Combining Grapheme Joiner is the 80th of 112 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, like most characters outside the 0–255 legacy codepage range, it has no dedicated Alt-code or single-key shortcut on Windows or Mac, so copy-paste is the standard, universal method for typing it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.

💡 Good to know: Where possible, use a precomposed character (like é instead of e + combining acute) for better compatibility, and reserve combining marks for accents that have no precomposed equivalent.