Combining Right Arrowhead Above

Combining Right Arrowhead Above at U+0350 is a nonspacing mark that places a small right-pointing arrowhead over the preceding character. It is part of the Combining Diacritical Marks block, so it modifies nearby text rather than functioning as a standalone arrow or punctuation mark. Its practical use is narrow and mostly scholarly. It can appear in phonetic, phonological, or linguistic transcription systems where an editor needs an above-letter sign indicating direction, offglide, movement, or another notation-specific feature; the exact value depends on the transcription convention being used. Because it is a combining character, it is typed after the base letter it belongs to and may be stored separately from what readers perceive as one marked letter. The main practical gotcha is that many fonts and text engines do not position this uncommon mark neatly, so it may float awkwardly, overlap adjacent accents, or appear over a dotted placeholder if no base character is available.