U+00CA "Ê" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ê
U+00CA "Ê" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex is a precomposed letter used in several languages, including French, Portuguese, and Vietnamese, where it represents a specific vowel sound often modified by the circumflex diacritic to indicate a change in pronunciation, historical vowel length, or tone. In French, it frequently appears in words like "être" and denotes a particular openness of the "e" sound, while in Portuguese, it indicates a stressed, close-mid vowel that is often nasalized in certain dialects. This character is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block and serves as both a typographic convenience and a necessary orthographic component for accurate representation of these languages in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00CA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter E Circumflex |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "E" U+0045 Latin Capital Letter E "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ê |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ê |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00ca |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ê" U+00EA Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ê" U+00EA Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex |
| Simple Case Folding | "ê" U+00EA Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex |
| Case Folding | "ê" U+00EA Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ê" U+00EA Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ê" U+00EA Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |