LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ character

Name:

LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ

Hex Number:

U+0132

Decimal Number:

306

HTML Entity (Dec):

HTML Entity (Hex):

Alternate Name:

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I J

Category:

Lu (Uppercase Letter)

Bidi Class:

L (Left-to-Right)

Mirrored:

Combining Class:

Unicode Block:

Latin Extended-A

Plane:

Plane Code:

BMP

Plane Description:

Basic Multilingual Plane

Plane Range:

0000-FFFF

Character Preview:

Ĳ

LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ is an uppercase letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Uppercase Letter (Lu) refers to characters that are uppercase in a bicameral script. These include uppercase letters in scripts like Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and others. Uppercase letters are typically used at the beginning of sentences or proper nouns, and they are distinct from lowercase letters.

This character belongs to the Latin Extended-A block. Latin Extended-A is a Unicode block and is the third block of the Unicode standard. It encodes Latin letters from the Latin ISO character sets other than Latin-1 (which is already encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block) and also legacy characters from the ISO 6937 standard.

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