U+012D "ĭ" Latin Small Letter I with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+012D "ĭ" Latin Small Letter I with Breve is a lowercase letter i combined with a breve diacritical mark, which appears as a curved symbol placed above the letter to indicate a short or extra-brief pronunciation. This character is primarily used in the Latin orthographies of several languages, including Romanian, where it represents a short i sound in certain contexts, as well as in linguistic transcriptions and some African languages to denote a specific vowel quality. Its uppercase counterpart is U+012C "Ĭ" Latin Capital Letter I with Breve, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Latin Extended-A block, facilitating consistent representation across digital systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+012D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter I with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter I Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ĭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ĭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x012D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000012D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u012d |
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 | "Ĭ" U+012C Latin Capital Letter I with Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ĭ" U+012C Latin Capital Letter I with Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ĭ" U+012C Latin Capital Letter I with Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ĭ" U+012C Latin Capital Letter I with Breve |
| 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 |