U+0055 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U: U – Unicode

U+0055 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0000 to U+007F Basic Latin in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its lowercase variant is Latin Small Letter U.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0055 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 29 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

U, or u, is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is u (pronounced ), plural ues.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	85
UTF-8	55
UTF-16	00 55
UTF-32	00 00 00 55
URL-Quoted	%55
HTML hex reference	U
AGL: Latin-1	U
AGL: Latin-2	U
AGL: Latin-3	U
AGL: Latin-4	U
AGL: Latin-5	U
Adobe Glyph List	U
digraph	U

Related Characters

Confusables

Canadian Syllabics Twe

Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter U

Latin Capital Letter Au

Union

N-Ary Union

Mathematical Bold Capital U

Mathematical Italic Capital U

Mathematical Bold Italic Capital U

Mathematical Script Capital U

Mathematical Bold Script Capital U

Mathematical Fraktur Capital U

Mathematical Double-Struck Capital U

Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital U

Mathematical Sans-Serif Capital U

Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital U

Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Capital U

Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital U

Mathematical Monospace Capital U

Armenian Capital Letter Seh

Ethiopic Syllable Ha

Osage Capital Letter U

Canadian Syllabics Te

Lisu Letter U

Miao Letter Wa

Warang Citi Capital Letter Pu

Latin Capital Letter U Bar

Cherokee Letter Sa

Canadian Syllabics West-Cree Twe

Canadian Syllabics Tte

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Basic Latin
General Category (gc)	Uppercase Letter
Script (sc)	Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Latin Capital Letter U
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Latin Small Letter U
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Latin Small Letter U
Uppercase (Upper)	✔
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Latin Capital Letter U
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Latin Capital Letter U
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Latin Capital Letter U
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Latin Capital Letter U
Case Folding (cf)	Latin Small Letter U
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✔
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✔
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Latin Capital Letter U
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Latin Small Letter U
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Latin Small Letter U
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Upper
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Latin Capital Letter U
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	narrow
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Latin Small Letter U
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R

U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U

Representations

Related Characters

Confusables

Elsewhere

Complete Record