U+01D4 "ǔ" Latin Small Letter U with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01D4 "ǔ" Latin Small Letter U with Caron is a precomposed Latin character used in several languages, including Pinyin for Mandarin Chinese where it represents a third tone, a falling-rising pitch, on the vowel "u", as seen in words like "nǔlì" meaning effort. It also appears in the transcription of certain African languages such as Yoruba and in some transliteration schemes for Slavic languages. Typographically, the character combines a standard lowercase "u" with a caron, a diacritical mark that resembles an inverted breve, placed above the letter. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms, allowing for proper display and interchange of text in linguistic and scholarly contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01D4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter U Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01D4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001D4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01d4 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ǔ" U+01D3 Latin Capital Letter U with Caron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ǔ" U+01D3 Latin Capital Letter U with Caron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ǔ" U+01D3 Latin Capital Letter U with Caron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ǔ" U+01D3 Latin Capital Letter U with Caron |
| 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 |