U+0045 "E" Latin Capital Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
E
U+0045 "E" Latin Capital Letter E is one of the most fundamental and frequently used letters in the Latin alphabet, serving as the fifth letter in English and many other languages. It originated from the Phoenician letter he, which represented a breathy consonant sound, and was later adapted by the Greeks as epsilon for the vowel sound /e/. As a direct inheritance from the Roman alphabet, this uppercase E is encoded in the ASCII standard at decimal 69, and it functions as a building block for countless written words, scientific notations, and mathematical symbols. Its simple yet iconic shape, consisting of a vertical stem with three equally spaced horizontal bars, has remained largely unchanged for millennia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0045 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | E |
| HTML Hex Encoding | E |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x45 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0045 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000045 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0045 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E |
| Lowercase Code Point | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E |
| Simple Case Folding | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E |
| Case Folding | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Hex Digit | Yes |
| ASCII Hex Digit | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |