U+1E0A "Ḋ" Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E0A "Ḋ" Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Above is a precomposed Latin letter used primarily in historical or phonetic transcriptions, as well as in certain orthographies for languages such as Irish or Welsh where the dot above indicates lenition or a specific phonetic value. In medieval Irish manuscripts, the overdotted D often represented a lenited or aspirated sound, similar to how a dot above a consonant in Gaelic script marks a change in pronunciation. This character is distinct from the base letter D and is encoded in the Unicode Latin Extended Additional block, ensuring its proper display in digital text where precise linguistic representation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E0A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "D" U+0044 Latin Capital Letter D "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E0A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E0A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e0a |
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 | "ḋ" U+1E0B Latin Small Letter D with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḋ" U+1E0B Latin Small Letter D with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḋ" U+1E0B Latin Small Letter D with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ḋ" U+1E0B Latin Small Letter D with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḋ" U+1E0B Latin Small Letter D with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḋ" U+1E0B Latin Small Letter D with Dot Above |
| 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 |