U+0132 LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ

IJ

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Decimal / Nº
306
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a compatibility composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+0132, officially named LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Latin Ext A block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I J.

Categorized technically as a Uppercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Latin script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a compatibility composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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306 Copied!
UTF-8 C4 B2 Copied!
UTF-16 01 32 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 01 32 Copied!
URL-Quoted %C4%B2 Copied!
HTML hex reference IJ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'0132' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u0132 Copied!
C and C++ \u0132 Copied!
C# \u0132 Copied!
CSS \000132 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(306) Copied!
Go \u0132 Copied!
JavaScript \u0132 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{0132} Copied!
JSON \u0132 Copied!
Java \u0132 Copied!
Lua \u{0132} Copied!
Matlab char(306) Copied!
Perl \x{0132} Copied!
PHP \u{0132} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\0132' Copied!
PowerShell `u{0132} Copied!
Python \u0132 Copied!
Ruby \u{0132} Copied!
Rust \u{0132} Copied!