U+0173 "ų" Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0173 "ų" Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek is a lowercase letter used primarily in the Lithuanian alphabet, where it represents a long vowel sound that is often nasalized, as in the word "skųsti" meaning to complain. It is also found in other languages like Navajo and some Native American orthographies, where the ogonek diacritic indicates a nasalized pronunciation. The character is composed of a standard letter U with a small hook-like mark, known as an ogonek, placed beneath it, and it belongs to the Latin Extended-A block of Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0173 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter U Ogonek |
| 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+0328 Combining Ogonek |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ų |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ų |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0173 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000173 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0173 |
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 | "Ų" U+0172 Latin Capital Letter U with Ogonek |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ų" U+0172 Latin Capital Letter U with Ogonek |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ų" U+0172 Latin Capital Letter U with Ogonek |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ų" U+0172 Latin Capital Letter U with Ogonek |
| 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 |