U+02DB "˛" Ogonek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+02DB "˛" Ogonek is a diacritical mark that resembles a small hook or tail attached to the bottom right of a letter, most commonly used in the orthographies of Polish, Lithuanian, and several Native American languages to indicate nasalization or other vowel modifications. It derives its name from the Polish word for "little tail" and is distinct from the cedilla, which it superficially resembles, as the ogonek is typically larger and curves away from the letter rather than under it. In modern typography, this mark can combine with base characters like A, E, I, O, U, and Y to form letters such as Ą, Ę, Į, and Ų, serving to systematically alter vowel pronunciation in the written form of these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+02DB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ogonek |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Ogonek |
| Block | Spacing Modifier Letters |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "SP" U+0020 Space "̨" U+0328 Combining Ogonek |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ˛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ˛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCB 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x02DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000002DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u02db |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̨" U+0328 Combining Ogonek |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̨" U+0328 Combining Ogonek |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |