U+0222 "Ȣ" Latin Capital Letter Ou Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0222 "Ȣ" Latin Capital Letter Ou is a ligature historically used in medieval and early modern Latin scripts to represent the Greek diphthong "ου" (omicron upsilon) and is derived from the combination of the letters O and U or a superscript V form. It is archaically employed in certain orthographies for Latin, Old Norse, and occasionally in later Irish or Romanian contexts, though it is now largely obsolete and primarily of interest to palaeographers, typographers, and scholars of historical writing systems. The character is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, preserving its use for specialized textual reproduction and digital representation of centuries-old manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0222 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Ou |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0222 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000222 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0222 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ȣ" U+0223 Latin Small Letter Ou |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȣ" U+0223 Latin Small Letter Ou |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȣ" U+0223 Latin Small Letter Ou |
| Case Folding | "ȣ" U+0223 Latin Small Letter Ou |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȣ" U+0223 Latin Small Letter Ou |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȣ" U+0223 Latin Small Letter Ou |
| 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 |