U+028A "ʊ" Latin Small Letter Upsilon Unicode Character

U+028A "ʊ" Latin Small Letter Upsilon is a phonetic symbol representing a near-close near-back rounded vowel, commonly found in the International Phonetic Alphabet and used to transcribe the vowel sound in words like the English "put" or "foot." Its shape is derived from the Greek letter upsilon but with a turned or rotated appearance, distinguishing it from the similar-looking Latin letter "u." This character is also employed in certain orthographies for African languages, contributing to the precise representation of specific vowel qualities in linguistic studies and language documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+028A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Upsilon
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ʊ
HTML Hex Encoding	ʊ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCA 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x028A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000028A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u028a

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	"Ʊ" U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ʊ" U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon
Uppercase Code Point	"Ʊ" U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon
Titlecase Code Point	"Ʊ" U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon
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