U0068

U0068 generally refers to the Unicode code point U+0068, which represents the Latin small letter h. It is part of the Basic Latin block and is the lowercase form of the Latin capital letter H.

The official Unicode name for this character is LATIN SMALL LETTER H. It has the general category Ll, meaning it is a lowercase letter, and its script is Latin. Its uppercase counterpart is U+0048 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H. In encoding terms, U+0068 corresponds to the byte 0x68 in UTF-8 and 0x0068 in UTF-16; in ASCII it is decimal 104.

Usage and representation: The character is widely used in many languages that use the Latin alphabet, including English. In markup and data formats, it can be represented with numeric character references such as h or h. In font rendering, the glyph for h is a standard lowercase form and may vary slightly across fonts while preserving its identity as the Latin small letter h.

History and context: U+0068 has been part of Unicode since the early Unicode standard and is universally supported across modern systems and fonts. It serves as a basic, interoperable element for text encoding, search, and processing in multilingual text environments. See also U+0048 for the uppercase form and the broader Basic Latin block.