U+014E "Ŏ" Latin Capital Letter O with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+014E "Ŏ" Latin Capital Letter O with Breve is a Latin script grapheme formed by the base letter O combined with a breve diacritic, a curved mark placed above the character to indicate a short vowel sound. It is used in several languages, including Romanian, where it appears in older orthographies and certain transcription systems, as well as in the transliteration of Slavic languages like Belarusian or Bulgarian to represent the Cyrillic letter 'O' with a breve. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, this character is not standard, but it can appear in linguistic notation to denote a specific short o sound. Its lowercase counterpart is U+014F "ŏ".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+014E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter O with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter O Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "O" U+004F Latin Capital Letter O "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ŏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ŏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x014E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000014E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u014e |
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 | "ŏ" U+014F Latin Small Letter O with Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ŏ" U+014F Latin Small Letter O with Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ŏ" U+014F Latin Small Letter O with Breve |
| Case Folding | "ŏ" U+014F Latin Small Letter O with Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ŏ" U+014F Latin Small Letter O with Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ŏ" U+014F Latin Small Letter O 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 |