U+016D "ŭ" Latin Small Letter U with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+016D "ŭ" Latin Small Letter U with Breve is a modified Latin letter that consists of a standard lowercase "u" combined with a breve diacritic, which is a curved mark placed above the letter to indicate a short vowel sound. It is primarily used in the romanization of several languages, including Belarusian, where it represents the sound /u/ in a short or reduced form, and in the Esperanto alphabet as the letter "u" with a breve, pronounced like the English "w" in "well." Additionally, it appears in the transcription of certain African and indigenous languages to denote a specific vowel quality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+016D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter U Breve |
| 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+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ŭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ŭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x016D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000016D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u016d |
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 | "Ŭ" U+016C Latin Capital Letter U with Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ŭ" U+016C Latin Capital Letter U with Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ŭ" U+016C Latin Capital Letter U with Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ŭ" U+016C Latin Capital Letter U 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 |