U+1E06 "Ḇ" Latin Capital Letter B with Line Below Unicode Character
U+1E06 "Ḇ" Latin Capital Letter B with Line Below is a modified version of the standard Latin letter B, distinguished by a horizontal diacritical mark placed directly beneath it. This character is primarily used in certain scholarly transliteration systems, particularly for transcribing languages such as Sanskrit or other Indic scripts, where it often represents a voiced bilabial plosive that is implosive or otherwise distinct from a plain B. It can also appear in phonetic notation or linguistic documentation to denote a specific pronunciation variant. The lowercase counterpart is U+1E07 "ḇ", and the line below is a diacritic that signals a modification in articulation, such as retroflexion or breathiness, depending on the transcription scheme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E06 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter B with Line 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+0331 Combining Macron Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E06 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e06 |
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 | "ḇ" U+1E07 Latin Small Letter B with Line Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḇ" U+1E07 Latin Small Letter B with Line Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḇ" U+1E07 Latin Small Letter B with Line Below |
| Case Folding | "ḇ" U+1E07 Latin Small Letter B with Line Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḇ" U+1E07 Latin Small Letter B with Line Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḇ" U+1E07 Latin Small Letter B with Line 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 |