U+1E07 "ḇ" Latin Small Letter B with Line Below Unicode Character

U+1E07 "ḇ" Latin Small Letter B with Line Below is a specialized grapheme used primarily in linguistic transcription and certain historical or biblical text studies. It represents a voiced bilabial fricative sound, which is distinct from the standard plosive sound of a regular "b" and is often employed in Semitic language transliteration systems, such as for Hebrew or Arabic, to indicate a softened or spirantized allophone of the letter bet. The line below the letter serves as a diacritical mark to denote this phonetic variation, making it an essential tool for scholars and linguists documenting precise pronunciation in ancient or modern languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E07
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter B with Line 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+0331 Combining Macron Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ḇ
HTML Hex Encoding	ḇ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB8 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E07
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E07
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e07

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	"Ḇ" U+1E06 Latin Capital Letter B with Line Below
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ḇ" U+1E06 Latin Capital Letter B with Line Below
Uppercase Code Point	"Ḇ" U+1E06 Latin Capital Letter B with Line Below
Titlecase Code Point	"Ḇ" U+1E06 Latin Capital Letter B with Line 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