U+020C "Ȍ" Latin Capital Letter O with Double Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+020C "Ȍ" Latin Capital Letter O with Double Grave is a specialized letter used in certain Latin-based orthographies, particularly for the transliteration of Slavic languages or phonetic transcription, where it represents the letter O with a double grave accent, a diacritic that indicates an extra-low or falling tone in some linguistic contexts. It is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, and its lowercase counterpart is U+020D "ȍ" Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave. While not commonly found in everyday text, this character is essential for accurate representation in scholarly works, dictionaries, and language documentation that require precise tonal or stress notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+020C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter O with Double Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "O" U+004F Latin Capital Letter O "̏" U+030F Combining Double Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x020C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000020C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u020c |
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 | "ȍ" U+020D Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȍ" U+020D Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȍ" U+020D Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave |
| Case Folding | "ȍ" U+020D Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȍ" U+020D Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȍ" U+020D Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave |
| 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 |