U+1E05 "ḅ" Latin Small Letter B with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E05 "ḅ" Latin Small Letter B with Dot Below is a modified Latin letter used primarily in the transliteration of certain African and Semitic languages, where the dot below serves as a diacritical mark to represent a distinct phonetic value, often indicating a voiced bilabial implosive or a retroflex stop sound rather than the standard English /b/. It belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for use in academic writing, linguistic transcription, and orthographies such as those for the Hausa or Kanuri languages, where precise representation of consonant articulation is essential. The character is formed by adding a combining dot below (U+0323) to the base letter "b", though it exists as a single precomposed code point for compatibility and ease of use in digital text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E05 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter B with Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "b" U+0062 Latin Small Letter B "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E05 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e05 |
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 | "Ḅ" U+1E04 Latin Capital Letter B with Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḅ" U+1E04 Latin Capital Letter B with Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḅ" U+1E04 Latin Capital Letter B with Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḅ" U+1E04 Latin Capital Letter B with Dot Below |
| 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 |