U+0117 "ė" Latin Small Letter E with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0117 "ė" Latin Small Letter E with Dot Above is a modified Latin letter used primarily in the Lithuanian alphabet, where it represents a lengthened or stressed form of the vowel "e," and it can also appear in other languages like Cheyenne for indicating a particular pronunciation. This character is formed by adding a combining dot above the standard lowercase letter "e," and it belongs to the Latin Extended-A block of Unicode. In modern computing and text encoding, it ensures that languages requiring this diacritic can be accurately represented and processed across digital platforms, particularly in written Lithuanian where it distinguishes words and grammatical forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0117 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Dot Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter E Dot |
| 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+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ė |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ė |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0117 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000117 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0117 |
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 | "Ė" U+0116 Latin Capital Letter E with Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ė" U+0116 Latin Capital Letter E with Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ė" U+0116 Latin Capital Letter E with Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ė" U+0116 Latin Capital Letter E with Dot Above |
| 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 |