U+0289 "ʉ" Latin Small Letter U Bar Unicode Character

U+0289 "ʉ" Latin Small Letter U Bar is a vowel symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a close central rounded vowel, essentially an "oo" sound produced with the tongue positioned centrally in the mouth and the lips rounded. It appears in phonetic transcriptions of various languages, such as Swedish and some dialects of English, where it distinguishes between different vowel qualities. Typographically, it is a lowercase "u" with a horizontal stroke through the top, and it belongs to the IPA Extensions block, ensuring consistent representation across digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0289
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter U Bar
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ʉ
HTML Hex Encoding	ʉ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCA 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0289
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000289
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0289

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	"Ʉ" U+0244 Latin Capital Letter U Bar
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ʉ" U+0244 Latin Capital Letter U Bar
Uppercase Code Point	"Ʉ" U+0244 Latin Capital Letter U Bar
Titlecase Code Point	"Ʉ" U+0244 Latin Capital Letter U Bar
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