U+0118 "Ę" Latin Capital Letter E with Ogonek Unicode Character
U+0118 "Ę" Latin Capital Letter E with Ogonek is a modified Latin letter used primarily in Polish, Lithuanian, and some Indigenous American languages to represent a specific nasalized vowel sound. It consists of a standard capital letter E with a small hook or tail attached to the bottom right, called an ogonek, which signals that the vowel is pronounced with nasalization, similar to the French "in" in words like "vin." In Polish, this character appears in important words such as "język" meaning tongue or language, and it is distinct from its lowercase counterpart "ę" which follows the same typographic rule. The ogonek diacritic does not alter the alphabetical ordering in most languages, though it plays a crucial role in phonetics and orthography for accurate pronunciation and meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0118 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Ogonek |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter E Ogonek |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "E" U+0045 Latin Capital Letter E "̨" U+0328 Combining Ogonek |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ę |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ę |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0118 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000118 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0118 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ę" U+0119 Latin Small Letter E with Ogonek |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ę" U+0119 Latin Small Letter E with Ogonek |
| Simple Case Folding | "ę" U+0119 Latin Small Letter E with Ogonek |
| Case Folding | "ę" U+0119 Latin Small Letter E with Ogonek |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ę" U+0119 Latin Small Letter E with Ogonek |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ę" U+0119 Latin Small Letter E with Ogonek |
| 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 | Upper |