U+020D "ȍ" Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave Unicode Character
U+020D "ȍ" Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave is a specialized glyph used primarily in certain Latin-script orthographies and scholarly transliterations, most notably in the standard romanization of Church Slavonic and other Slavic languages where it represents a distinct vowel with double grave accent diacritic. This character appears in the Latin Extended-B block of the Unicode Standard and is derived from the base letter O, modified by two downward-facing grave accents stacked above it to indicate a specific tone or vowel quality, often reflecting a historical or phonological distinction not captured by the single grave accent. Its usage is relatively rare outside linguistic or liturgical contexts, functioning as a precise tool for representing phonetic or orthographic details in academic and religious texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+020D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Double Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "o" U+006F Latin Small Letter O "̏" U+030F Combining Double Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ȍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ȍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x020D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000020D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u020d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ȍ" U+020C Latin Capital Letter O with Double Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ȍ" U+020C Latin Capital Letter O with Double Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ȍ" U+020C Latin Capital Letter O with Double Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ȍ" U+020C Latin Capital Letter O with Double Grave |
| 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 |