U+1ED8 "Ộ" Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex and Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1ED8 "Ộ" Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex and Dot Below is a specialized glyph used in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific vowel sound in the Vietnamese language. It combines the base letter O with a circumflex accent above and a dot below, which together indicate a particular tone and vowel quality that distinguishes words in written Vietnamese. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for digital text representation, allowing for accurate and standardized writing of Vietnamese in electronic documents and communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1ED8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ọ" U+1ECC Latin Capital Letter O with Dot Below "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ộ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ộ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1ED8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001ED8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ed8 |
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 | "ộ" U+1ED9 Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ộ" U+1ED9 Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ộ" U+1ED9 Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ộ" U+1ED9 Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ộ" U+1ED9 Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ộ" U+1ED9 Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Dot 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 |