U+1E0D "ḍ" Latin Small Letter D with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E0D "ḍ" Latin Small Letter D with Dot Below is a specialized Latin letter used primarily in transliteration systems for Indic scripts, such as the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST), where it represents a retroflex d sound distinct from the regular dental d. This character is formed by combining a lowercase d with a combining dot below (U+0323), and it appears in scholarly texts, linguistic works, and digital representations of languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, and Tamil to accurately convey pronunciation. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent encoding across platforms, enabling precise text processing and display in contexts ranging from academic publications to online language learning resources.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E0D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter D with Dot Below |
| 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+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E0D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e0d |
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 | "Ḍ" U+1E0C Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḍ" U+1E0C Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḍ" U+1E0C Latin Capital Letter D with Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḍ" U+1E0C Latin Capital Letter D with Dot 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 |