U+1E76 "Ṷ" Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex Below Unicode Character
U+1E76 "Ṷ" Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex Below is a specialized Latin letter used primarily in the romanization of certain Semitic languages, such as Akkadian or Hittite, to represent a specific vowel sound involving a u-quality with a constrained or extra-short articulation often transcribed with a diacritic indicating a circumflex placed beneath the base letter. This character belongs to the block “Latin Extended Additional” and is composed of a standard Latin capital U combined with a combining diacritical mark for the circumflex below, allowing scholars to accurately represent phonetic contrasts that are not present in standard Latin alphabets. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that linguistic texts and digital transcriptions of ancient languages can preserve the precise orthographic details required for academic study, though it remains a rarely used character outside of specialist philological contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E76 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex 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+032D Combining Circumflex Accent Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E76 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E76 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e76 |
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 | "ṷ" U+1E77 Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṷ" U+1E77 Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṷ" U+1E77 Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| Case Folding | "ṷ" U+1E77 Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṷ" U+1E77 Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṷ" U+1E77 Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex 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 |