U+016E "Ů" Latin Capital Letter U with Ring Above Unicode Character
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U+016E "Ů" Latin Capital Letter U with Ring Above is a specialized letter used primarily in the Czech language, where it represents a long /uː/ sound that is pronounced with the lips more rounded than a standard U. This glyph appears in words such as "dům" meaning house and "kůň" meaning horse, and it is distinct from the similar-looking "U with breve" or "U with diacritic" found in other scripts. The ring above the letter functions as a diacritic that modifies pronunciation rather than serving as an ornamental mark, and it has a corresponding lowercase form (ů) at code point U+016F. Historically, this character evolved from the digraph "uo" in Old Czech, with the ring symbolizing the former 'o' that became part of the modern long vowel.
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Latin Small Letter U with Breve
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Latin Small Letter U with Ring Above
General Properties
Code Point
U+016E
Name
Latin Capital Letter U with Ring Above
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Capital Letter U Ring
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ů
HTML Hex Encoding
Ů
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC5 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding
0x016E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000016E
C/C++/Java Escape
\u016e
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin