U+00FB "û" Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00FB "û" Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex is a precomposed character representing the letter "u" with a circumflex diacritic, used primarily in French, where it often indicates a historical vowel change or distinguishes meaning, such as in "dû" (past participle of devoir) versus "du" (contraction of de le), and also appears in other languages like Portuguese and Romanian for phonetic marking.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00FB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter U Circumflex |
| 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+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | û |
| HTML Hex Encoding | û |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00fb |
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 | "Û" U+00DB Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Û" U+00DB Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Û" U+00DB Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Û" U+00DB Latin Capital Letter U 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 |