U+00DA "Ú" Latin Capital Letter U with Acute Unicode Character
U+00DA "Ú" Latin Capital Letter U with Acute is a precomposed glyph used in several European languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, and Irish, where it represents a stressed or distinct vowel sound, often indicating emphasis or a specific pronunciation in words like "último" or "cúram". It is encoded as a single character for compatibility with older text systems and interoperability with legacy data, while modern Unicode advocates using the base letter "U" followed by the combining acute accent (U+0301) for dynamic composition. This character belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block and serves as a common typographic element in writing systems that require diacritical marking to clarify meaning, such as distinguishing "u" from "ú" in Spanish or marking long vowels in Czech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00DA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter U Acute |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ú |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ú |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00DA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000DA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00da |
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 | "ú" U+00FA Latin Small Letter U with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ú" U+00FA Latin Small Letter U with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ú" U+00FA Latin Small Letter U with Acute |
| Case Folding | "ú" U+00FA Latin Small Letter U with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ú" U+00FA Latin Small Letter U with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ú" U+00FA Latin Small Letter U with Acute |
| 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 |