U00FB

U+00FB, named LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX, is a Unicode character representing the Latin letter u bearing a circumflex diacritic. It corresponds to the glyph û and is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block. The uppercase counterpart is U+00DB, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX.

Encoding and representation details: In UTF-8, U+00FB is encoded as the two-byte sequence 0xC3 0xBB. In UTF-16 it has the code unit 0x00FB. In ISO/IEC 8859-1 and Windows-1252 (Western European encodings), the character is assigned the single byte 0xFB. In HTML it can be written as the named entity û or as a numeric reference û or û.

Linguistic usage: The character is used in several languages that employ the Latin script. In French, the circumflex often indicates a historical vowel length or a now-absent letter, and it appears in words such as dû and sûr. In other contexts, û appears in loanwords or proper names and may have language-specific pronunciations.

Computing and typography: U+00FB is widely supported by modern fonts and software, reflecting its inclusion in Unicode as well as legacy encodings like ISO/IEC 8859-1 and Windows-1252. Its presence helps distinguish meanings and etymologies in languages that utilize diacritics, contributing to accurate rendering and text processing across platforms.

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