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Glyph for U+0133
Source: Noto Sans

U+0133 Latin Small Ligature Ij

U+0133 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0100 to U+017F Latin Extended-A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant Glyph for U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij and its titlecase variant Glyph for U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij.

The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0069 Latin Small Letter I, Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0133 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

IJ (lowercase ij; Dutch pronunciation: [ɛi] ; also encountered as deprecated codepoints IJ and ij) is a digraph of the letters i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or a letter in itself. In most fonts that have a separate character for ij, the two composing parts are not connected but are separate glyphs, which are sometimes slightly kerned.

An ij in written Dutch usually represents the diphthong [ɛi]. In standard Dutch and most Dutch dialects, there are two possible spellings for the diphthong [ɛi]: ij and ei. That causes confusion for school children, who need to learn which words to write with ei and which with ij. To distinguish between the two, the ij is referred to as the lange ij ("long ij"), the ei as korte ei ("short ei") or simply E – I. In certain Dutch dialects (notably West Flemish and Zeelandic) and the Dutch Low Saxon dialects of Low German, a difference in the pronunciation of ei and ij is maintained. Whether it is pronounced identically to ei or not, the pronunciation of ij is often perceived as being difficult by people who do not have either sound in their native language.

The ij originally represented a 'long i'. It used to be written as ii, as in Finnish and Estonian, but for orthographic purposes, the second i was eventually elongated, which is a reason why it is called lange ij. This can still be seen in the pronunciation of some words like bijzonder (bi.zɔn.dər), and the etymology of some words in the Dutch form of several foreign placenames: Berlin and Paris are spelled Berlijn and Parijs. Nowadays, the pronunciation mostly follows the spelling, and they are pronounced with [ɛi]. The ij is distinct from the letter y. Particularly when writing capitals, Y used to be common instead of IJ in the past. That practice has long been deprecated, but the standard Dutch pronunciation of the letter Y is still ij when the alphabet is read. In scientific disciplines such as mathematics and physics, the symbol y is usually pronounced ij.

To distinguish the Y from IJ in common speech, however, Y is often called Griekse ij (meaning "Greek Y"), a literal translation of i-grec (from French, with the stress on grec: [iˈɡrɛk]) or alternatively called Ypsilon. In modern Dutch, the letter Y occurs only in loanwords, proper nouns, or when deliberately spelled as Early Modern Dutch. The spelling of Afrikaans (a daughter language of early modern Dutch) has evolved in the exact opposite direction and IJ has been completely replaced by Y.

However, the ancient use of Y in Dutch has survived in some personal names, particularly that of Dutch immigrants in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand where as a result of anglicization, the IJ became a Y. For example, the surname Spijker was often changed into Spyker and Snijder into Snyder.

Representations

System Representation
307
UTF-8 C4 B3
UTF-16 01 33
UTF-32 00 00 01 33
URL-Quoted %C4%B3
HTML hex reference ij
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ij
HTML named entity ij
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A9 A6
LATEX ij
AGL: Latin-5 ij
Adobe Glyph List ij
digraph ij

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ
Unicode 1 Name LATIN SMALL LETTER I J
Block Latin Extended-A
General Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0069 Latin Small Letter I Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0133 Latin Small Ligature Ij
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0133 Latin Small Ligature Ij
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0132 Latin Capital Ligature Ij
Case Folding Glyph for U+0133 Latin Small Ligature Ij
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0133 Latin Small Ligature Ij
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0069 Latin Small Letter I Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0069 Latin Small Letter I Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Lower
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0133 Latin Small Ligature Ij
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0133 Latin Small Ligature Ij
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R