U+1E0B "ḋ" Latin Small Letter D with Dot Above Unicode Character

U+1E0B "ḋ" Latin Small Letter D with Dot Above is a specialized letter used primarily in phonetic transcription and in certain orthographies for languages such as Irish and Old English, where it represents a voiced dental fricative sound similar to the "th" in "then." It is formed by adding a combining dot above the standard lowercase Latin letter "d," and its uppercase counterpart is U+1E0A "Ḋ" Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Above. This character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for use in digital text to accurately represent specific linguistic sounds that are not covered by basic Latin letters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E0B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter D with Dot Above
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ḋ
HTML Hex Encoding	ḋ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB8 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E0B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E0B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e0b

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	"Ḋ" U+1E0A Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Above
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ḋ" U+1E0A Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Above
Uppercase Code Point	"Ḋ" U+1E0A Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Above
Titlecase Code Point	"Ḋ" U+1E0A Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Above
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