U+0133 "ij" Latin Small Ligature Ij Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ij
U+0133 "ij" Latin Small Ligature Ij is a typographic ligature representing the combination of the letters i and j, primarily used in the Dutch language to denote the digraph "ij" as a distinct unit, often in names, place names, or words like "ijs" for ice. This character functions as a single grapheme, and while it is commonly replaced by two separate letters in modern digital text, its presence in Unicode preserves a traditional orthographic form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0133 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Ligature Ij |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter I J |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I "j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ij |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ij |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0133 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000133 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0133 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "IJ" U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "IJ" U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij |
| Uppercase Code Point | "IJ" U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij |
| Titlecase Code Point | "IJ" U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I "j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I "j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J |
| 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 |