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U+016C · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH BREVE

Latin Capital Letter U with Breve

  • CodepointU+016C
  • NameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH BREVE
  • Decimal364
  • 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+016C (Ŭ) is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U 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+016D ŭ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0055 U + 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 Ŭ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C5 AC2 bytes
UTF-16016C1 code unit
UTF-320000016C4 bytes
HTML namedŬnamed character reference
HTML decimalŬ
HTML hexŬ
CSS\16Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u016C
JSON\u016C
Python\u016C
Python\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH BREVE}by name
Java / C#\u016C
C / C++\u016Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{16C}
Go\u016C
Ruby\u016C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(364)
URL-encoded%C5%ACpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0055 U + U+0306 ◌̆
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0055 U + 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+01D3ǓLatin Capital Letter U with Caron
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Nearby in Latin Extended-A

All in block →
U+0166ŦLatin Capital Letter T with Stroke U+0167ŧLatin Small Letter T with Stroke U+0168ŨLatin Capital Letter U with Tilde U+0169ũLatin Small Letter U with Tilde U+016AŪLatin Capital Letter U with Macron U+016BūLatin Small Letter U with Macron U+016DŭLatin Small Letter U with Breve U+016EŮLatin Capital Letter U with Ring Above U+016FůLatin Small Letter U with Ring Above U+0170ŰLatin Capital Letter U with Double Acute U+0171űLatin Small Letter U with Double Acute U+0172ŲLatin Capital Letter U with Ogonek