U+01EC "Ǭ" Latin Capital Letter O with Ogonek and Macron Unicode Character
U+01EC "Ǭ" Latin Capital Letter O with Ogonek and Macron is a composite glyph used primarily in the transcription of certain ancient and medieval languages, such as Old Norse and Old English, where it represents a long O sound that has undergone nasalization, indicated by the ogonek (a hook attached to the bottom right of the letter) combined with a macron (a horizontal line above the letter) to mark length. This character is formed by adding both diacritics to the base Latin letter O, and its lowercase counterpart is U+01ED "ǭ". While rarely encountered in modern standard orthographies, Ǭ appears in scholarly editions, linguistic texts, and dictionaries that require precise phonetic or historical notation, ensuring accurate representation of vowel quality and quantity in reconstructed or documented speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01EC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter O with Ogonek and Macron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter O Ogonek Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ǫ" U+01EA Latin Capital Letter O with Ogonek "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01ec |
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 | "ǭ" U+01ED Latin Small Letter O with Ogonek and Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǭ" U+01ED Latin Small Letter O with Ogonek and Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǭ" U+01ED Latin Small Letter O with Ogonek and Macron |
| Case Folding | "ǭ" U+01ED Latin Small Letter O with Ogonek and Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǭ" U+01ED Latin Small Letter O with Ogonek and Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǭ" U+01ED Latin Small Letter O with Ogonek and Macron |
| 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 |