U+01A3 "ƣ" Latin Small Letter Oi Unicode Character

U+01A3 "ƣ" Latin Small Letter Oi is a historical typographic glyph representing a ligature of the letters "o" and "i" used primarily in the Old English orthography of the Ormulum, a 12th century biblical exegesis, where it denoted a long o sound in specific contexts. This character, along with its uppercase counterpart U+01A2 "Ƣ", was included in the Unicode standard to support scholarly transcription of medieval manuscripts, though it is rarely encountered in modern digital text. Its shape combines a standard Latin o with a connecting i, often appearing as a distinctive, cursive style element in early Middle English writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+01A3
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Oi
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter O I
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Alias	LATIN SMALL LETTER GHA (correction)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ƣ
HTML Hex Encoding	ƣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC6 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x01A3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000001A3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u01a3

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ƣ" U+01A2 Latin Capital Letter Oi
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ƣ" U+01A2 Latin Capital Letter Oi
Uppercase Code Point	"Ƣ" U+01A2 Latin Capital Letter Oi
Titlecase Code Point	"Ƣ" U+01A2 Latin Capital Letter Oi
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