U+0172 "Ų" Latin Capital Letter U with Ogonek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0172 "Ų" Latin Capital Letter U with Ogonek is a modified letter used primarily in the Lithuanian alphabet, where it represents a long, nasalized version of the vowel U. The ogonek, a small hook attached to the bottom right of the letter, indicates this nasal quality, which is a distinctive feature in Lithuanian phonology. This character also appears in other languages such as Navajo and some Native American orthographies, though with different sound values. Its encoding in Unicode ensures proper representation in digital text, preserving linguistic accuracy for writing systems that rely on this diacritical mark.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0172 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Ogonek |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter U Ogonek |
| 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+0328 Combining Ogonek |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ų |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ų |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0172 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000172 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0172 |
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 | "ų" U+0173 Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ų" U+0173 Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek |
| Simple Case Folding | "ų" U+0173 Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek |
| Case Folding | "ų" U+0173 Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ų" U+0173 Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ų" U+0173 Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek |
| 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 |