U+00CC "Ì" Latin Capital Letter I with Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ì
U+00CC "Ì" Latin Capital Letter I with Grave is a precomposed character used in several languages, including Italian, where it can appear in words like "caffè" to indicate a specific pronunciation, and occasionally in Catalan, French, and Welsh to denote stress or distinguish homophones. It consists of the uppercase letter "I" combined with a grave accent (`) above it, which historically marks a low or falling tone in certain phonetic contexts. In digital text, it is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block in Unicode, and it is commonly employed in formal writing or proper names, though in modern typing it is often replaced by a separate "I" followed by a combining grave accent character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00CC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter I with Grave |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter I Grave |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ì |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ì |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00CC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000CC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00cc |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ì" U+00EC Latin Small Letter I with Grave |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ì" U+00EC Latin Small Letter I with Grave |
| Simple Case Folding | "ì" U+00EC Latin Small Letter I with Grave |
| Case Folding | "ì" U+00EC Latin Small Letter I with Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ì" U+00EC Latin Small Letter I with Grave |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ì" U+00EC Latin Small Letter I with Grave |
| 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 | Upper |