U+014F "ŏ" Latin Small Letter O with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+014F "ŏ" Latin Small Letter O with Breve is a lowercase vowel letter used in several Latin-based alphabets, where the breve diacritic above the letter indicates a short pronunciation of the o sound. It appears in the orthographies of languages such as Romanian, where it is used in the word "România" alongside the Romanian s with comma, and in some transliteration systems for Slavic or other languages to represent a short o. This character is visually distinct from a standard lowercase o due to the curved breve mark, which resembles a small, shallow arc placed over the letter. Its uppercase counterpart is U+014E, the Latin Capital Letter O with Breve, ensuring proper casing in typography and digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+014F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter O Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "o" U+006F Latin Small Letter O "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ŏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ŏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x014F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000014F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u014f |
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 | "Ŏ" U+014E Latin Capital Letter O with Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ŏ" U+014E Latin Capital Letter O with Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ŏ" U+014E Latin Capital Letter O with Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ŏ" U+014E Latin Capital Letter O 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 |