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Glyph for U+0169
Source: Noto Sans

U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde

U+0169 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0100 to U+017F Latin Extended-A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0075 Latin Small Letter U, Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0169 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The tilde (, also ) is a grapheme ⟨˜⟩ or ⟨~⟩ with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish tilde, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning 'title' or 'superscription'. Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter. Its freestanding form is used in modern texts mainly to indicate approximation.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 361
UTF-8 C5 A9
UTF-16 01 69
UTF-32 00 00 01 69
URL-Quoted %C5%A9
HTML hex reference ũ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Å©
HTML named entity ũ
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) 8F AB EC
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 8F AB EC
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 8F AB EC
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 30 95 36
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 2B 6C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 2B 6C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 2B 6C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) FD
Encoding: ISO8859_10 (hex bytes) F7
LATEX \~{u}
AGL: Latin-4 utilde
AGL: Latin-5 utilde
Adobe Glyph List utilde
digraph u?

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) LATIN SMALL LETTER U TILDE
Block (blk) Latin Extended-A
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0075 Latin Small Letter U Glyph for U+0303 Combining Tilde
Lowercase (Lower) ✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0168 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde
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) Glyph for U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde
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) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
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) Lower
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) Glyph for U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
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) Glyph for U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R