U+1E04 "Ḅ" Latin Capital Letter B with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E04 "Ḅ" Latin Capital Letter B with Dot Below is a modified version of the standard Latin letter B, distinguished by a small dot placed beneath it. This diacritical mark, known as a dot below, typically indicates a specific phonetic alteration in linguistic transcription, often representing a voiced bilabial implosive or a similarly modified sound in languages such as some African orthographies or in academic notations for ancient languages. It is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which provides support for a wide range of scholarly and indigenous writing systems. While not common in everyday English, this character is an important tool for precise representation in certain language documentation and linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E04 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter B with Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "B" U+0042 Latin Capital Letter B "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e04 |
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 | "ḅ" U+1E05 Latin Small Letter B with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḅ" U+1E05 Latin Small Letter B with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḅ" U+1E05 Latin Small Letter B with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ḅ" U+1E05 Latin Small Letter B with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḅ" U+1E05 Latin Small Letter B with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḅ" U+1E05 Latin Small Letter B with Dot Below |
| 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 |