U+1ED5 "ổ" Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Hook Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ổ
U+1ED5 "ổ" Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Hook Above is a composite glyph used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents a specific tonal variant of the vowel "ô." It combines a base Latin letter O with a circumflex accent, which indicates a higher or different vowel quality, and a hook above, which marks the hỏi tone, a mid-low, falling-rising tone in Vietnamese. This character is essential for accurately writing and reading Vietnamese words, as tonal distinctions are crucial for meaning. It is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure proper digital representation across platforms and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1ED5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Hook Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ô" U+00F4 Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex "̉" U+0309 Combining Hook Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ổ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ổ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1ED5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001ED5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ed5 |
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 | "Ổ" U+1ED4 Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex and Hook Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ổ" U+1ED4 Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex and Hook Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ổ" U+1ED4 Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex and Hook Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ổ" U+1ED4 Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex and Hook Above |
| 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 |