U+1EE2 "Ợ" Latin Capital Letter O with Horn and Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EE2 "Ợ" Latin Capital Letter O with Horn and Dot Below is a composite grapheme used in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents a specific vowel sound distinct from a plain O or O with only a horn. The diacritics combine a horn added to the top right of the letter O, which indicates a particular rounded back vowel quality, and a dot below, which signifies a low, creaky tone in the Vietnamese tonal system. This character is typically rendered in specialized fonts that support Vietnamese typography and appears in written texts such as the word "cợt" (meaning to jest or joke), playing an essential role in accurate orthography and tonal pronunciation crucial for distinguishing meaning in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EE2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter O with Horn 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 | "Ơ" U+01A0 Latin Capital Letter O with Horn "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ợ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ợ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ee2 |
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 | "ợ" U+1EE3 Latin Small Letter O with Horn and Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ợ" U+1EE3 Latin Small Letter O with Horn and Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ợ" U+1EE3 Latin Small Letter O with Horn and Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ợ" U+1EE3 Latin Small Letter O with Horn and Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ợ" U+1EE3 Latin Small Letter O with Horn and Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ợ" U+1EE3 Latin Small Letter O with Horn 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 |