U+020E "Ȏ" Latin Capital Letter O with Inverted Breve Unicode Character
U+020E "Ȏ" Latin Capital Letter O with Inverted Breve is a typographic variant of the letter O, distinguished by a small, upward-facing arc (an inverted breve) placed above the letter, which historically indicates a specific vowel quality or length in certain phonetic transcription systems and orthographies, such as those used for some Eastern European or minority languages. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block, designed to support precise linguistic representation beyond the standard Latin alphabet. Its appearance resembles a standard O topped with a rounded caron-like symbol, and it is rarely used in modern mainstream writing, primarily appearing in specialized academic or historical texts where detailed phonetic or orthographic distinction is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+020E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| 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+0311 Combining Inverted Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x020E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000020E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u020e |
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 | "ȏ" U+020F Latin Small Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȏ" U+020F Latin Small Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȏ" U+020F Latin Small Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| Case Folding | "ȏ" U+020F Latin Small Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȏ" U+020F Latin Small Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȏ" U+020F Latin Small Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| 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 |