U+AB62 "ꭢ" Latin Small Letter Open Oe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AB62 "ꭢ" Latin Small Letter Open Oe is a glyph used in phonetic transcription, specifically representing a vowel sound that is an open-mid front rounded vowel, similar to the sound in the word "nurse" when pronounced in some British English dialects or the French "œuf." It belongs to the Latin Extended-E block, which was added to support a range of specialized phonetic notations for the Teuthonista phonetic alphabet system used primarily by dialectologists and linguists studying German dialects. This character combines the visual elements of an open "o" and an "e" ligature, distinguishing it from the similar but tighter form of the standard "œ" ligature. As a niche symbol, it enables precise documentation of subtle phonetic distinctions in linguistic research and historical language analysis.

General Properties

Code Point U+AB62
Version Added 8.0
Name Latin Small Letter Open Oe
Block Latin Extended-E
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꭢ
HTML Hex Encoding ꭢ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAD 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAB62
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AB62
C/C++/Java Escape \uab62

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Lowercase Yes
Cased 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