html-entity

˜

˜

˜

HTML named character reference ˜ maps to U+02DC.

Mapping

Named reference
˜
Code point(s)
U+02DC
Decimal
732
Characters
˜

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (˜) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02