U+021B "ț" Latin Small Letter T with Comma Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+021B "ț" Latin Small Letter T with Comma Below is a typographic variant used primarily in the Romanian language to represent the voiceless alveolar affricate sound /ts/, as in the Romanian word "țăran". This character is sometimes confused with the similar-looking "ţ" (the Latin Small Letter T with Cedilla, U+0163), but the comma below is the officially preferred form in modern Romanian orthography, as the cedilla is considered an older or less accurate glyph. The character is encoded in Unicode to ensure proper digital representation and text processing for Romanian, and it has been supported in major operating systems and fonts since its inclusion in Unicode Version 3.0.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+021B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter T with Comma Below |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "t" U+0074 Latin Small Letter T "̦" U+0326 Combining Comma Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ț |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ț |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x021B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000021B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u021b |
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 | "Ț" U+021A Latin Capital Letter T with Comma Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ț" U+021A Latin Capital Letter T with Comma Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ț" U+021A Latin Capital Letter T with Comma Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ț" U+021A Latin Capital Letter T with Comma Below |
| 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 |