U+1EEB "ừ" Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EEB "ừ" Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Grave is a distinct glyph used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific tonal variant of the vowel "u." The character is composed of a standard Latin small letter "u" with a diacritical "horn" attached to its upper right side, which indicates a rounded, back vowel sound unique to Vietnamese, combined with a grave accent above it to denote the low, falling tone. It appears in the Unicode block Latin Extended Additional and is essential for accurately writing and typing many Vietnamese words, such as "hừ" or "mừng," ensuring proper phonetic distinction and meaning in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EEB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ư" U+01B0 Latin Small Letter U with Horn "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ừ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ừ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EEB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eeb |
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 | "Ừ" U+1EEA Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ừ" U+1EEA Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ừ" U+1EEA Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ừ" U+1EEA Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Grave |
| 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 |