U+00EE "î" Latin Small Letter I with Circumflex Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

î

U+00EE "î" Latin Small Letter I with Circumflex is a precomposed glyph representing the Latin letter "i" combined with a circumflex accent (^), and it is commonly used in several European languages to indicate a specific vowel sound or to mark a historical spelling change. In French, it often appears in words like "île" where the circumflex typically denotes the former presence of a following "s" in Old French, while in Romanian it represents the vowel sound /ɨ/ and is a distinct letter of the alphabet. This character also appears in other languages such as Italian, where it can indicate a stressed or long syllable, and in certain transliteration systems for emphasizing pronunciation. Its Unicode encoding allows for consistent digital representation across platforms, ensuring that the accented "i" is displayed correctly without relying on separate character composition.

General Properties

Code Point U+00EE
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter I with Circumflex
Unicode 1.0 Name Latin Small Letter I Circumflex
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I
"̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding î
HTML Hex Encoding î
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC3 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x00EE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000000EE
C/C++/Java Escape \u00ee

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Lowercase Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point "Î" U+00CE Latin Capital Letter I with Circumflex
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Î" U+00CE Latin Capital Letter I with Circumflex
Uppercase Code Point "Î" U+00CE Latin Capital Letter I with Circumflex
Titlecase Code Point "Î" U+00CE Latin Capital Letter I with Circumflex
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