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U+012C · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH BREVE

Latin Capital Letter I with Breve

  • CodepointU+012C
  • NameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH BREVE
  • Decimal300
  • BlockLatin Extended-A (U+0100–U+017F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLu — Uppercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+012C (Ĭ) is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH BREVE, an uppercase letter in the Latin Extended-A block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its lowercase form is U+012D ĭ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0049 I + U+0306 ◌̆, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

How to type Ĭ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C4 AC2 bytes
UTF-16012C1 code unit
UTF-320000012C4 bytes
HTML decimalĬ
HTML hexĬ
CSS\12Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u012C
JSON\u012C
Python\u012C
Python\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH BREVE}by name
Java / C#\u012C
C / C++\u012Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{12C}
Go\u012C
Ruby\u012C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(300)
URL-encoded%C4%ACpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0049 I + U+0306 ◌̆
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0049 I + U+0306 ◌̆
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+01CFǏLatin Capital Letter I with Caron
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Nearby in Latin Extended-A

All in block →
U+0126ĦLatin Capital Letter H with Stroke U+0127ħLatin Small Letter H with Stroke U+0128ĨLatin Capital Letter I with Tilde U+0129ĩLatin Small Letter I with Tilde U+012AĪLatin Capital Letter I with Macron U+012BīLatin Small Letter I with Macron U+012DĭLatin Small Letter I with Breve U+012EĮLatin Capital Letter I with Ogonek U+012FįLatin Small Letter I with Ogonek U+0130İLatin Capital Letter I with Dot Above U+0131ıLatin Small Letter Dotless I U+0132IJLatin Capital Ligature Ij