U+00F8 "ø" Latin Small Letter O with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00F8 "ø" Latin Small Letter O with Stroke is a distinct letter in several alphabets, most notably in the Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese languages, where it represents a specific mid-front rounded vowel sound, similar to the "i" in "bird" in some English dialects. It also appears in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote this sound. Historically derived from a ligature of "o" and "e," the character is visually defined by a diagonal line through the standard "o" and should not be confused with the similar-looking symbol for the empty set (∅). In computing, it is encoded as a single character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is often accessible in word processors through key combinations or character maps.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00F8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Stroke |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter O Slash |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ø |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ø |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00f8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ø" U+00D8 Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ø" U+00D8 Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ø" U+00D8 Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ø" U+00D8 Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke |
| 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 |