U+0244 "Ʉ" Latin Capital Letter U Bar Unicode Character
U+0244 "Ʉ" Latin Capital Letter U Bar is a typographic symbol used primarily in phonetic transcription and certain orthographies for indigenous languages of Africa and the Americas. It represents a close central rounded vowel sound, similar to the vowel in the English word "boot" but pronounced with the tongue in a central rather than back position. The character is formed by a standard capital letter U with a horizontal bar drawn through its center, distinguishing it from the similar but distinct "U with stroke" used in other contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation for linguistic documentation, such as in the transcription of languages like Lunda or Ngbaka, where it denotes a specific phonemic contrast.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0244 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U Bar |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ʉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ʉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0244 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000244 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0244 |
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 | "ʉ" U+0289 Latin Small Letter U Bar |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ʉ" U+0289 Latin Small Letter U Bar |
| Simple Case Folding | "ʉ" U+0289 Latin Small Letter U Bar |
| Case Folding | "ʉ" U+0289 Latin Small Letter U Bar |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ʉ" U+0289 Latin Small Letter U Bar |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ʉ" U+0289 Latin Small Letter U Bar |
| 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 |