U+00EB "ë" Latin Small Letter E with Diaeresis Unicode Character
U+00EB "ë" Latin Small Letter E with Diaeresis is a precomposed character representing a letter e with two dots placed above it, traditionally known as a diaeresis or trema. It is used in several languages and orthographic systems, most notably in French, Catalan, and Albanian, where the diaeresis indicates that the vowel is to be pronounced separately from a preceding vowel, as in the French word "Noël," or marks a distinct vowel quality, as in the Albanian alphabet where it represents a schwa sound. In English, it occasionally appears in loanwords and names to signal that the e is not part of a digraph, such as in the word "naïve" or "Brontë." As part of the Latin-1 Supplement block, it is widely supported in digital text encoding, enabling proper representation of these linguistic distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00EB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Diaeresis |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter E Diaeresis |
| 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+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ë |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ë |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00eb |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ë" U+00CB Latin Capital Letter E with Diaeresis |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ë" U+00CB Latin Capital Letter E with Diaeresis |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ë" U+00CB Latin Capital Letter E with Diaeresis |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ë" U+00CB Latin Capital Letter E with Diaeresis |
| 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 |