U+1EEE "Ữ" Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Tilde Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EEE "Ữ" Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Tilde is a specialized letter used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific vowel sound that combines a mid-rising tone with a rounded, back tongue position, distinguished by the addition of both a horn diacritic attached to the upper right of the letter U and a tilde placed above it. This character appears in written Vietnamese as part of the orthographic representation of the word "ữ," which denotes a distinct phoneme not found in English, and it is encoded in Unicode to facilitate accurate digital text processing and display for the Vietnamese language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EEE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Tilde |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ư" U+01AF Latin Capital Letter U with Horn "̃" U+0303 Combining Tilde |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ữ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ữ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EEE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EEE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eee |
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 | "ữ" U+1EEF Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Tilde |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ữ" U+1EEF Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Tilde |
| Simple Case Folding | "ữ" U+1EEF Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Tilde |
| Case Folding | "ữ" U+1EEF Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Tilde |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ữ" U+1EEF Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Tilde |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ữ" U+1EEF Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Tilde |
| 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 |