U+0206 "Ȇ" Latin Capital Letter E with Inverted Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ȇ
U+0206 "Ȇ" Latin Capital Letter E with Inverted Breve is a typographic variant of the letter E distinguished by an inverted breve diacritic, which resembles a small curved mark placed above the character, open at the top. This grapheme is part of the Latin Extended-B block within the Unicode standard and is used primarily in certain transliteration systems or linguistic notations, such as representing a specific vowel quality or tone in phonetic scripts, though it is not commonly found in standard modern alphabets for natural languages. Its inclusion allows for precise textual representation in specialized academic or typographic contexts, ensuring fidelity to source materials that employ this diacritical mark.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0206 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Inverted Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+0311 Combining Inverted Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0206 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000206 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0206 |
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 | "ȇ" U+0207 Latin Small Letter E with Inverted Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȇ" U+0207 Latin Small Letter E with Inverted Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȇ" U+0207 Latin Small Letter E with Inverted Breve |
| Case Folding | "ȇ" U+0207 Latin Small Letter E with Inverted Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȇ" U+0207 Latin Small Letter E with Inverted Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȇ" U+0207 Latin Small Letter E with Inverted Breve |
| 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 |