U+020F "ȏ" Latin Small Letter O with Inverted Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+020F "ȏ" Latin Small Letter O with Inverted Breve is a specialized glyph used primarily in certain phonetic and linguistic transcription systems, such as the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, where it represents a specific vowel sound with a short or reduced articulation, indicated by the inverted breve diacritic placed above the letter "o". This character is distinct from the standard "o" with a regular breve, as the inverted breve often marks a semi-long or lightly stressed syllable in scholarly texts. It is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, making it available for precise digital representation in academic and multilingual contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+020F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| 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+0311 Combining Inverted Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ȏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ȏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x020F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000020F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u020f |
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 | "Ȏ" U+020E Latin Capital Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ȏ" U+020E Latin Capital Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ȏ" U+020E Latin Capital Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ȏ" U+020E Latin Capital Letter O with Inverted Breve |
| 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 |