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 .

The glyph is a Circle composition of the glyphs . 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 regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and ALetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Not to be confused with Union of Orthodox Rabbis, a distinct Haredi rabbinical group.

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA), more popularly known as the Orthodox Union (OU), is one of the oldest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States. It is best known for its kosher certification service. Its circled-U symbol, Ⓤ, a hechsher, is found on the labels of many commercial and consumer food products.

The OU supports a network of synagogues, youth programs, Jewish and Religious Zionist advocacy, programs for the disabled, localized religious study programs, and some international units with locations in Israel and formerly in Ukraine.

It is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States. Its synagogues and their rabbis typically identify themselves with Modern Orthodox Judaism.