U+1EEF "" Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Tilde Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+1EEF "" Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Tilde is a specific diacritic combination used in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a distinctive vowel sound. This character is formed by adding a horn diacritic to the base letter U, which typically indicates a rounded or labialized pronunciation, and then combining it with a tilde above, which marks the ngã or "rising" tone in Vietnamese phonology. Altogether, "ữ" represents a mid-rising, creaky tone version of the vowel sound often transcribed as /ɨ/ or /ɯ/, and it appears in essential Vietnamese words like "từ" meaning "word" or "chữ" meaning "letter" or "script."

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ữ
HTML Hex Encoding
ữ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBB 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1EEF
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001EEF
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1eef