U+1EED "ử" Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Hook Above Unicode Character
U+1EED "ử" Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Hook Above is a precomposed character used in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents the vowel "u" pronounced with a mid-rising or dipping tone, known as the hỏi tone, and is written with a horn diacritic added to the base letter "u" along with a hook above. This character is essential for distinguishing tonal differences in Vietnamese orthography, which relies on diacritics to indicate both vowel quality and tone. It is encoded in the Latin Extended Additional block of Unicode and is commonly utilized in digital text representation for languages like Vietnamese. The visual appearance of "ử" combines a standard lowercase "u" with a small curve (the horn) attached to its upper right side, topped by a small hook-shaped mark.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EED |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Horn 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 | "ư" U+01B0 Latin Small Letter U with Horn "̉" U+0309 Combining Hook Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ử |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ử |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eed |
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 | "Ử" U+1EEC Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Hook Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ử" U+1EEC Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Hook Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ử" U+1EEC Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Hook Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ử" U+1EEC Latin Capital Letter U with Horn 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 |