U+01E1 "ǡ" Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron Unicode Character
U+01E1 "ǡ" Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron is a precomposed Latin character used primarily in the transcription of certain ancient and liturgical languages, such as Old English and Sanskrit, where it represents a distinctive vowel sound with both a short, high pitch marked by the dot above and a long duration indicated by the macron. This glyph is rarely encountered in modern standard alphabets and is typically employed in academic contexts like philology or historical linguistics to ensure precise phonetic representation. Its encoding in Unicode allows for consistent digital display and text processing, avoiding the need for combining diacritical marks and supporting specialized scholarly work that requires accurate rendering of historical or exotic orthographies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01E1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter A Dot Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ȧ" U+0227 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01E1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01e1 |
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 | "Ǡ" U+01E0 Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ǡ" U+01E0 Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ǡ" U+01E0 Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ǡ" U+01E0 Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| 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 |