U+00FA "ú" Latin Small Letter U with Acute Unicode Character
U+00FA "ú" Latin Small Letter U with Acute is a precomposed character representing the letter "u" with an acute accent, used primarily in languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Irish, and several other Romance and Central European languages to indicate stress or a specific vowel quality. It belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block and has a decimal value of 250, with the acute diacritic placed above the "u" to modify its pronunciation, as in the Spanish word "último" meaning last. This character can be represented via a Unicode escape as u00FA and is distinct from the use of combining accents, as it is a single code point rather than a sequence. Its uppercase counterpart is U+00DA "Ú", and it is widely supported in modern text processing and display systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00FA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter U Acute |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ú |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ú |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00fa |
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 | "Ú" U+00DA Latin Capital Letter U with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ú" U+00DA Latin Capital Letter U with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ú" U+00DA Latin Capital Letter U with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ú" U+00DA Latin Capital Letter U with Acute |
| 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 |