U

Latin Capital Letter U

U+0055
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character U
Decimal U
Hex U

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0055
Decimal
85
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Uppercase Letter (Lu)
Script
Latin
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
Na Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Lowercase
u U+0075

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Latin Capital Letter U.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
U
HTML Hex
U
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
55
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 55
UTF-32 Hex
00000055
CSS Escape
\55
JavaScript Escape
\u0055
Python Escape
\u0055
URL Encoded
U
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