U+00F9 "ù" Latin Small Letter U with Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ù
U+00F9 "ù" Latin Small Letter U with Grave is a precomposed glyph representing the lowercase letter 'u' with a grave accent diacritic, which is used in several languages including French, Italian, and Vietnamese to indicate a specific pronunciation, often a stressed or distinct vowel sound. In French, it appears in words like "où" (meaning where) to differentiate from "ou" (meaning or), while in Italian it marks the final vowel of some words, and in Vietnamese it represents a particular tonal variant of the vowel 'u'. This character is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block and was encoded in Unicode version 1.1, allowing for standardized text representation across digital systems without requiring separate combining character sequences.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00F9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Grave |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter U Grave |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ù |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ù |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00f9 |
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 | "Ù" U+00D9 Latin Capital Letter U with Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ù" U+00D9 Latin Capital Letter U with Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ù" U+00D9 Latin Capital Letter U with Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ù" U+00D9 Latin Capital Letter U 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 |