A syllabic consonant is a consonant which either forms a syllable on its own, or is the nucleus of a syllable. The diacritic for this in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the under-stroke, ⟨ ̩ ⟩ (U+0329 ̩ combining vertical line below). It may be represented by an over-stroke, ⟨ ̍ ⟩ (U+030D ̍ combining vertical line above), if the symbol that it modifies has a descender, such as in .