U+0115 "ĕ" Latin Small Letter E with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ĕ
U+0115 "ĕ" Latin Small Letter E with Breve is a variant of the standard letter "e" modified with a breve diacritic, a small curved mark placed above the character that indicates a short or shortened pronunciation. It is used in several languages, most notably in Romanian where it represents a short, central vowel sound, as well as in the transliteration of certain Slavic languages like Old Church Slavonic or Bulgarian for the yat vowel, and in Latin-based orthographies for linguistic notation. Part of the Latin Extended-A block, this character serves specific phonetic and orthographic purposes distinct from the plain "e", ensuring accurate representation of sound distinctions in writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0115 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter E Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| 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+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ĕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ĕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0115 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000115 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0115 |
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 | "Ĕ" U+0114 Latin Capital Letter E with Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ĕ" U+0114 Latin Capital Letter E with Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ĕ" U+0114 Latin Capital Letter E with Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ĕ" U+0114 Latin Capital Letter E with Breve |
| 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 |