U+01D3 "Ǔ" Latin Capital Letter U with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01D3 "Ǔ" Latin Capital Letter U with Caron is a specialized letter used in certain alphabets and linguistic transcription systems, representing a U sound modified by a caron diacritic which indicates a rising tone or a palatalized pronunciation depending on the context. This character is primarily employed in the orthography of a few languages such as Nenets and some romanization schemes for Chinese, where it denotes a specific tonal or phonetic distinction. It is encoded in Unicode to ensure consistent digital representation across platforms, allowing for accurate text processing and display of these linguistic nuances without relying on ad hoc formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01D3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter U Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01D3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001D3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01d3 |
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 | "ǔ" U+01D4 Latin Small Letter U with Caron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǔ" U+01D4 Latin Small Letter U with Caron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǔ" U+01D4 Latin Small Letter U with Caron |
| Case Folding | "ǔ" U+01D4 Latin Small Letter U with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǔ" U+01D4 Latin Small Letter U with Caron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǔ" U+01D4 Latin Small Letter U with Caron |
| 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 |