U+01FE "Ǿ" Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke and Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01FE "Ǿ" Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke and Acute is a specialized glyph used primarily in the Danish and Norwegian alphabets to represent a specific vowel sound. It combines a base Latin capital letter O with a horizontal stroke through its center and an acute accent mark above it, which indicates a distinct phonetic value or stress. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and is rarely encountered in everyday English text, but it appears in linguistic transcriptions or in languages where it denotes a unique phoneme, such as the Danish word "gǿg" meaning cuckoo.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01FE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ø" U+00D8 Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01FE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001FE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01fe |
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 | "ǿ" U+01FF Latin Small Letter O with Stroke and Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǿ" U+01FF Latin Small Letter O with Stroke and Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǿ" U+01FF Latin Small Letter O with Stroke and Acute |
| Case Folding | "ǿ" U+01FF Latin Small Letter O with Stroke and Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǿ" U+01FF Latin Small Letter O with Stroke and Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǿ" U+01FF Latin Small Letter O with Stroke and Acute |
| 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 |