U+0223 "ȣ" Latin Small Letter Ou Unicode Character

U+0223 "ȣ" Latin Small Letter Ou is a typographic ligature historically used in Latin script to represent the diphthong sound "ou," and it also appears in some medieval manuscript traditions as a shorthand or abbreviation. This character is distinct from the more common digraph "ou" and is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, primarily serving scholarly and historical text transcription needs. While rarely used in modern writing, it remains relevant for linguists, philologists, and editors working with old English, Irish, or other early European languages where such ligatures were conventional.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0223
Version Added	3.0
Name	Latin Small Letter Ou
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ȣ
HTML Hex Encoding	ȣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC8 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0223
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000223
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0223

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ȣ" U+0222 Latin Capital Letter Ou
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ȣ" U+0222 Latin Capital Letter Ou
Uppercase Code Point	"Ȣ" U+0222 Latin Capital Letter Ou
Titlecase Code Point	"Ȣ" U+0222 Latin Capital Letter Ou
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