U+00F5 "õ" Latin Small Letter O with Tilde Unicode Character
U+00F5 "õ" Latin Small Letter O with Tilde is a precomposed glyph representing the letter "o" with a tilde diacritic, commonly used in languages such as Estonian, Portuguese, and Vietnamese to indicate a specific nasalized or vowel sound. In Portuguese, it appears in words like "canção" to denote a nasal vowel, while in Estonian it represents a distinct vowel phoneme, and in Vietnamese it marks a particular tone. Historically, this character derives from combining a standard Latin "o" with the tilde, which originated as a scribal abbreviation for a nasal "n" in medieval Latin manuscripts. It is encoded in Unicode as a single code point to ensure consistent representation in digital text, and it is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block, making it widely supported across fonts and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00F5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Tilde |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter O Tilde |
| 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+0303 Combining Tilde |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | õ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | õ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00f5 |
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 | "Õ" U+00D5 Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Õ" U+00D5 Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Õ" U+00D5 Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Õ" U+00D5 Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde |
| 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 |