U+00EA "ê" Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00EA "ê" Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex is a precomposed character used in the French, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Welsh languages, among others, where it represents an "e" sound modified by a circumflex diacritic. In French, it often indicates a historical vowel change or distinguishes homophones, while in Portuguese it marks a stressed closed mid-front vowel, and in Vietnamese it denotes a specific tonal pronunciation as part of the alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00EA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter E Circumflex |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ê |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ê |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00ea |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ê" U+00CA Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ê" U+00CA Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ê" U+00CA Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ê" U+00CA Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |