U+0228 "Ȩ" Latin Capital Letter E with Cedilla Unicode Character
U+0228 "Ȩ" Latin Capital Letter E with Cedilla is a typographic variant of the letter E that incorporates a small hook or cedilla beneath it, primarily used in certain Latin-based orthographies and romanization systems. It appears in the writing of some African languages, such as Maba or Bagirmi, where it represents a distinct vowel sound, often a mid central or lowered variety, and is also employed in the transliteration of Semitic scripts like Arabic or Hebrew to denote a specific phoneme. The cedilla modifies the base letter to indicate a different phonetic quality, making it a functional diacritic rather than a purely decorative one. For proper display, the character relies on fonts with support for the Latin Extended-A block, as it is a predefined single glyph rather than a combined base letter and combining mark.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0228 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Cedilla |
| 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+0327 Combining Cedilla |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0228 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000228 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0228 |
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 | "ȩ" U+0229 Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȩ" U+0229 Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȩ" U+0229 Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla |
| Case Folding | "ȩ" U+0229 Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȩ" U+0229 Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȩ" U+0229 Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla |
| 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 |