U+0153 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE

The Unicode character U+0153, officially named LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE, 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 O E.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Latin script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a 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.