U+1EE5 "ụ" Latin Small Letter U with Dot Below Unicode Character

U+1EE5 "ụ" Latin Small Letter U with Dot Below is a grapheme used in several languages, including Vietnamese, where it represents a distinct vowel sound with a lower tone register often indicated by the dot below, as well as in some African languages such as Yoruba and Igbo for specific phonetic distinctions. This character combines a standard lowercase 'u' with a combining dot below mark, and it is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which was designed to support a wide range of Latin-based alphabets beyond the basic European set.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1EE5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter U with Dot 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+0323 Combining Dot Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ụ
HTML Hex Encoding	ụ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBB 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1EE5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001EE5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1ee5

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	"Ụ" U+1EE4 Latin Capital Letter U with Dot Below
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ụ" U+1EE4 Latin Capital Letter U with Dot Below
Uppercase Code Point	"Ụ" U+1EE4 Latin Capital Letter U with Dot Below
Titlecase Code Point	"Ụ" U+1EE4 Latin Capital Letter U with Dot 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