U+011B "ě" Latin Small Letter E with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+011B "ě" Latin Small Letter E with Caron is a distinct grapheme used primarily in languages such as Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian to represent a palatalized or softened "e" sound, often corresponding to the phonetic value [jɛ] or a similar front vowel with a slight y-glide. It is formed by combining a base Latin letter "e" with a caron diacritic, which is a small wedge-shaped mark placed above the character to indicate a modified pronunciation. This character is essential for proper orthography in these languages, where it can change the meaning of words, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure consistent digital representation across systems and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+011B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter E Hacek |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ě |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ě |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x011B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000011B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u011b |
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 | "Ě" U+011A Latin Capital Letter E with Caron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ě" U+011A Latin Capital Letter E with Caron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ě" U+011A Latin Capital Letter E with Caron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ě" U+011A Latin Capital Letter E with Caron |
| 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 |