U+00F2 "ò" Latin Small Letter O with Grave Unicode Character
U+00F2 "ò" Latin Small Letter O with Grave is a precomposed character used in multiple European languages, including Italian and Catalan, to indicate a specific vowel sound or stress pattern, where the grave accent over the letter o signals a falling pitch or a distinct phonetic quality. It is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block and is encoded as a single code point for compatibility and ease of text rendering, often utilized in contexts such as Italian words like "città" or poetry where grave accents are standard. Historically, this character evolved from the need to represent distinct pronunciations in Romance languages, and it remains essential for accurate written communication and digital text representation across these linguistic communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00F2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Grave |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter O Grave |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "o" U+006F Latin Small Letter O "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ò |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ò |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00F2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000F2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00f2 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ò" U+00D2 Latin Capital Letter O with Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ò" U+00D2 Latin Capital Letter O with Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ò" U+00D2 Latin Capital Letter O with Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ò" U+00D2 Latin Capital Letter O with Grave |
| 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 |