U+24CA Circled Latin Capital Letter U
U+24CA was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Enclosed Alphanumerics in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is related to its lowercase variant Circled Latin Small Letter U.
The glyph is a Circle composition of the glyph Latin Capital Letter U. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+24CA behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Orthodox Union (abbreviated OU) is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States. Founded in 1898, the OU supports a network of synagogues, youth programs, Jewish and Religious Zionist advocacy programs, programs for the disabled, localized religious study programs, and international units with locations in Israel and formerly in Ukraine. The OU maintains a kosher certification service, whose circled-U hechsher symbol, Ⓤ, is found on the labels of many kosher commercial and consumer food products.
Its synagogues and their rabbis typically identify themselves with Modern Orthodox Judaism.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9418 |
| UTF-8 | E2 93 8A |
| UTF-16 | 24 CA |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 24 CA |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%93%8A |
| HTML hex reference | Ⓤ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â“Š |
| Adobe Glyph List | Ucircle |
| digraph | U-o |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U | |
| — | |
| Enclosed Alphanumerics | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| Circle | |
| Latin Capital Letter U | |
| ✘ | |
| Circled Latin Small Letter U | |
| Circled Latin Small Letter U | |
| ✔ | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter U | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter U | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter U | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter U | |
| Circled Latin Small Letter U | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter U | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter U | |
| No | |
| No | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter U | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Circled Latin Small Letter U | |
| U |