U+00EC "ì" Latin Small Letter I with Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00EC "ì" Latin Small Letter I with Grave is a precomposed character used in several languages, including Italian, Catalan, and Vietnamese, where it represents the letter "i" with a grave accent, often indicating a specific pronunciation or stress pattern. In Italian, for example, it appears in words like "città" (city) to denote a stressed vowel, while in Vietnamese, it carries a distinct tonal value. This character is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block and can be composed by combining the base Latin small letter "i" with the combining grave accent mark (U+0300), though it is more commonly used as a single code point for convenience in digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00EC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter I with Grave |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter I Grave |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ì |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ì |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00ec |
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 | "Ì" U+00CC Latin Capital Letter I with Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ì" U+00CC Latin Capital Letter I with Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ì" U+00CC Latin Capital Letter I with Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ì" U+00CC Latin Capital Letter I with Grave |
| 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 |