U+016C "Ŭ" Latin Capital Letter U with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+016C "Ŭ" Latin Capital Letter U with Breve is a modified Latin letter consisting of a standard uppercase U topped with a breve diacritic, a curved mark resembling a small arc. This character is primarily used in linguistic transcription systems, such as the ISO 9 standard for romanizing Cyrillic, where it represents the sound of a short or reduced u, and it appears in the orthographies of certain languages like Esperanto, where it denotes the approximant consonant /w/ as in the word "ŝtuo." Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for these specialized writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+016C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter U Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ŭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ŭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x016C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000016C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u016c |
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 | "ŭ" U+016D Latin Small Letter U with Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ŭ" U+016D Latin Small Letter U with Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ŭ" U+016D Latin Small Letter U with Breve |
| Case Folding | "ŭ" U+016D Latin Small Letter U with Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ŭ" U+016D Latin Small Letter U with Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ŭ" U+016D Latin Small Letter U 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 |