U+006F "o" Latin Small Letter O Unicode Character

U+006F "o" Latin Small Letter O is the standard lowercase representation of the fifteenth letter in the English alphabet, inherited from the Latin script. It is a fundamental character in digital text encoding, belonging to the Basic Latin block of Unicode, and is identical in shape to the ASCII character with the same code point. Its primary function is to represent the rounded vowel sound typically found in words like "hot" or "go," and it serves as both a common typographic symbol and a critical component in written language across many scripts that derive from Latin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+006F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter O
Block	Basic Latin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	o
HTML Hex Encoding	o
UTF-8 Encoding	0x6F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x006F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000006F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u006f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Narrow
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"O" U+004F Latin Capital Letter O
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"O" U+004F Latin Capital Letter O
Uppercase Code Point	"O" U+004F Latin Capital Letter O
Titlecase Code Point	"O" U+004F Latin Capital Letter O
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower