U+0075 "u" Latin Small Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0075 "u" Latin Small Letter U is a fundamental character in the Latin alphabet, representing the voiced close back rounded vowel sound commonly heard in words like "rule" and "blue." It is part of the Basic Latin block (ASCII), occupying the code point 0075 in hexadecimal, and is used in the written forms of English and many other languages worldwide. This character has a capital counterpart, U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U, and a simple, single-stroke glyph design that typically appears as a curved letter with a vertical stem.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0075 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | u |
| HTML Hex Encoding | u |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x75 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0075 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000075 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0075 |
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 | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U |
| Uppercase Code Point | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U |
| Titlecase Code Point | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U |
| 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 |