œ

Latin Small Ligature Oe

U+0153
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character œ
Entity œ
Decimal œ
Hex œ

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+0153
Decimal
339
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter (Ll)
Script
Latin
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Uppercase
Œ U+0152

Looks Like (Confusables)

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

oe U+006F U+0065

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 Small Ligature Oe.

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Format Value
HTML Named Entity
œ
HTML Decimal
œ
HTML Hex
œ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
C5 93
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
01 53
UTF-32 Hex
00000153
CSS Escape
\153
JavaScript Escape
\u0153
Python Escape
\u0153
URL Encoded
%C5%93
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Latin Small Ligature Oe as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.