U+0163 "ţ" Latin Small Letter T with Cedilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0163 "ţ" Latin Small Letter T with Cedilla is a typographic variant of the letter T that features a small hook or cedilla attached beneath its stem, and it is primarily used in the Romanian and Gagauz languages to represent the voiceless alveolar affricate sound similar to the "ts" in "cats," as well as in some transliteration systems of Slavic languages. In modern Romanian orthography, however, this character has largely been replaced by the comma-below variant "ț" (U+021B), leading to ţ often appearing in historical texts or older digital fonts. Outside its linguistic role, the cedilla serves as a diacritic that can modify pronunciation, and the character also has a corresponding uppercase form "Ţ" (U+0162) for capitalization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0163 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter T with Cedilla |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter T Cedilla |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "t" U+0074 Latin Small Letter T "̧" U+0327 Combining Cedilla |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ţ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ţ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0163 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000163 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0163 |
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 | "Ţ" U+0162 Latin Capital Letter T with Cedilla |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ţ" U+0162 Latin Capital Letter T with Cedilla |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ţ" U+0162 Latin Capital Letter T with Cedilla |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ţ" U+0162 Latin Capital Letter T with Cedilla |
| 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 |