U+022C "Ȭ" Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde and Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+022C "Ȭ" Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde and Macron is a precomposed Latin letter used primarily in the orthography of certain languages for phonetic or transliteration purposes, combining a standard uppercase O with a tilde diacritic above and a macron diacritic across the top, representing a long or nasalized vowel sound in contexts such as the transcription of Middle Vietnamese or Livonian. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms, allowing scholars and linguists to accurately encode and display this specific glyph without relying on combining characters or font-specific workarounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+022C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde and Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Õ" U+00D5 Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x022C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000022C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u022c |
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 | "ȭ" U+022D Latin Small Letter O with Tilde and Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȭ" U+022D Latin Small Letter O with Tilde and Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȭ" U+022D Latin Small Letter O with Tilde and Macron |
| Case Folding | "ȭ" U+022D Latin Small Letter O with Tilde and Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȭ" U+022D Latin Small Letter O with Tilde and Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȭ" U+022D Latin Small Letter O with Tilde and Macron |
| 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 |