U+012C "Ĭ" Latin Capital Letter I with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ĭ
U+012C "Ĭ" Latin Capital Letter I with Breve is a grapheme that consists of the standard Latin letter I combined with a breve diacritical mark, which is a curved symbol placed above the letter to indicate a short pronunciation. This character is primarily used in linguistic transcription systems and in the orthographies of certain languages, such as Romanian in historical texts or in the romanization of languages like Vietnamese, where it represents a short or lax vowel sound. It also appears in Latin script notations for ancient languages and in specialized dictionaries or phonetic guides to denote vowel length, distinguishing it from its plain counterpart through the distinctive brevity marker.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+012C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter I with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter I Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ĭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ĭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x012C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000012C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u012c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ĭ" U+012D Latin Small Letter I with Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ĭ" U+012D Latin Small Letter I with Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ĭ" U+012D Latin Small Letter I with Breve |
| Case Folding | "ĭ" U+012D Latin Small Letter I with Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ĭ" U+012D Latin Small Letter I with Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ĭ" U+012D Latin Small Letter I with Breve |
| 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 | Upper |