U+0152 "Œ" Latin Capital Ligature Oe Unicode Character
U+0152 "Œ" Latin Capital Ligature Oe is a typographic ligature that combines the letters O and E into a single glyph, historically used in Latin and later adopted into French, where it appears in words like "cœur" and "œuvre," as well as in some English words of French origin such as "amœba" and "phœnix." This character represents a specific vowel sound, typically pronounced as a single unit, and is encoded separately from the individual O and E letters to preserve its distinct visual and orthographic identity in digital text. In modern writing, its usage has declined in English, with the ligature often replaced by the separate letters "oe," but it remains standard in French and is supported in Unicode for accurate representation of traditional typography and linguistic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0152 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Ligature Oe |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter O E |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Π|
| HTML Hex Encoding | Π|
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0152 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000152 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0152 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "œ" U+0153 Latin Small Ligature Oe |
| Lowercase Code Point | "œ" U+0153 Latin Small Ligature Oe |
| Simple Case Folding | "œ" U+0153 Latin Small Ligature Oe |
| Case Folding | "œ" U+0153 Latin Small Ligature Oe |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "œ" U+0153 Latin Small Ligature Oe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "œ" U+0153 Latin Small Ligature Oe |
| 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 |