IJ

Latin Capital Ligature Ij

U+0132
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character IJ
Decimal IJ
Hex IJ

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+0132
Decimal
306
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Uppercase Letter (Lu)
Script
Latin
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Lowercase
ij U+0133

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

lJ U+006C U+004A

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 Ligature Ij.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
IJ
HTML Hex
IJ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
C4 B2
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
01 32
UTF-32 Hex
00000132
CSS Escape
\132
JavaScript Escape
\u0132
Python Escape
\u0132
URL Encoded
%C4%B2
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Normalization Forms

Unicode defines four normalization forms that affect how characters with diacritics, compatibility variants, and combining marks are represented. This character has a non-trivial normalization — the forms below differ from its codepoint. Mismatched normalization is the most common cause of failed string comparisons across systems.

NFC = Canonical Decomposition then Canonical Composition (preferred for storage) · NFD = Canonical Decomposition · NFKC/NFKD = Compatibility forms (fold variants like fi → fi)

Decomposition

This character can be broken down into a sequence of simpler Unicode codepoints. This is a compatibility decomposition — the character is a stylistic or semantic variant of its components, not an exact equivalent.