U+00F4 "ô" Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex Unicode Character
U+00F4 "ô" Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex is a precomposed letter used in several languages including French, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Romanian, where the circumflex accent often indicates a specific pronunciation such as a closed or lengthened vowel sound. In French, it frequently marks the historical loss of a following letter like 's' as seen in words like hôte (host) and côte (coast). In Portuguese, it denotes a stressed, closed vowel as in avô (grandfather) while in Vietnamese, it represents a distinct vowel sound within the tonal system. This character can be typed directly via Unicode input or generated by combining a base "o" with the combining circumflex accent (U+0302), though it is more commonly used as a single encoded glyph for convenience in digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00F4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter O Circumflex |
| 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+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ô |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ô |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00f4 |
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 | "Ô" U+00D4 Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ô" U+00D4 Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ô" U+00D4 Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ô" U+00D4 Latin Capital Letter O 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 |