U+1E77 "ṷ" Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E77 "ṷ" Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex Below is a specialized Latin script glyph used primarily in phonetic transcription and certain linguistic orthographies to represent a specific vocalic sound. This character is formed by combining a standard lowercase "u" with a circumflex diacritic placed beneath it, which typically indicates a lowered or breathy vowel quality in systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet or in the transcription of ancient or dialectal languages. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and typographers can reliably represent this nuanced phonetic detail in digital text without resorting to makeshift formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E77 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U "̭" U+032D Combining Circumflex Accent Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e77 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ṷ" U+1E76 Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṷ" U+1E76 Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṷ" U+1E76 Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṷ" U+1E76 Latin Capital Letter U with Circumflex Below |
| 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 |