U+1E0C "Ḍ" Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E0C "Ḍ" Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Below is a specialized grapheme used primarily in the transliteration of languages such as Arabic, Sanskrit, and various African languages to represent a retroflex or emphatic /d/ sound, which is articulated with the tongue curled back against the palate. It belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is formed by combining a standard uppercase D with a combining dot below, a diacritical mark that indicates a distinct phonetic value from its plain counterpart. In practical usage, this character appears in academic texts, linguistic documentation, and romanization systems like the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) to ensure precise representation of non-European phonemes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E0C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Below |
| 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+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e0c |
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 | "ḍ" U+1E0D Latin Small Letter D with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḍ" U+1E0D Latin Small Letter D with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḍ" U+1E0D Latin Small Letter D with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ḍ" U+1E0D Latin Small Letter D with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḍ" U+1E0D Latin Small Letter D with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḍ" U+1E0D Latin Small Letter D with Dot 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 |