U+0133 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ

The Unicode character U+0133, officially named LATIN SMALL 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 SMALL LETTER I J.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase 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.