U+022F "ȯ" Latin Small Letter O with Dot Above Unicode Character

U+022F "ȯ" Latin Small Letter O with Dot Above is a Latin script glyph that represents the letter "o" modified with a diacritical dot placed above it, primarily used in certain transliteration systems and orthographies. It appears in the Livonian language, where it denotes a specific vowel sound distinct from a plain "o", and is also employed in linguistic contexts for phonetic transcription or academic notation. This character is encoded in the Latin Extended-A block of Unicode, allowing it to be utilized in digital text alongside other accented letters for precise written representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+022F
Version Added	3.0
Name	Latin Small Letter O with Dot Above
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+0307 Combining Dot Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ȯ
HTML Hex Encoding	ȯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC8 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x022F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000022F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u022f

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	"Ȯ" U+022E Latin Capital Letter O with Dot Above
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ȯ" U+022E Latin Capital Letter O with Dot Above
Uppercase Code Point	"Ȯ" U+022E Latin Capital Letter O with Dot Above
Titlecase Code Point	"Ȯ" U+022E Latin Capital Letter O with Dot Above
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