U+0169 "ũ" Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Unicode Character

U+0169 "ũ" Latin Small Letter U with Tilde is a precomposed glyph representing the letter 'u' combined with a diacritical tilde, typically used to denote a nasalized vowel sound in various languages, such as in the Portuguese word "comum" where it appears as "ũ" in some dialects or in the Guaraní and Aromanian alphabets. It is part of the Latin Extended-A block within Unicode, enabling standardized encoding and digital display across different systems and fonts, and it is often distinct from a plain 'u' followed by a combining tilde, though both forms can appear identical in rendered text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0169
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter U with Tilde
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter U Tilde
Block	Latin Extended-A
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U "̃" U+0303 Combining Tilde

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ũ
HTML Hex Encoding	ũ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC5 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0169
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000169
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0169

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	"Ũ" U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ũ" U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde
Uppercase Code Point	"Ũ" U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde
Titlecase Code Point	"Ũ" U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde
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