U+1E74 "Ṵ" Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E74 "Ṵ" Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde Below is a specialized glyph used primarily in the romanization and orthography of certain African languages, such as some variants of Yoruba or Gbe languages, where it represents a distinct vowel sound, often a nasalized or lowered version of the standard [u] phoneme. This character is formed by combining the base Latin capital letter U with a combining tilde diacritic placed beneath it, which indicates a specific phonetic modification. It belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, designed to support transcriptions and writing systems that require diacritical marks not present in basic Latin.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E74 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U "̰" U+0330 Combining Tilde Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e74 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ṵ" U+1E75 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṵ" U+1E75 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṵ" U+1E75 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Below |
| Case Folding | "ṵ" U+1E75 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṵ" U+1E75 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṵ" U+1E75 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Below |
| 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 |