U+1E0E "Ḏ" Latin Capital Letter D with Line Below Unicode Character
U+1E0E "Ḏ" Latin Capital Letter D with Line Below is a specialized glyph used primarily in the transliteration and orthography of various languages, most notably in the academic writing of Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew, where it represents a voiced dental fricative sound similar to the "th" in the English word "then." It belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block of Unicode and is formed by combining a standard Latin capital letter D with a combining diacritical mark known as a line below, which is placed directly under the letter. This character is essential for accurately representing certain phonemes in linguistic texts, historical documents, and some modern writing systems, ensuring that subtle distinctions in pronunciation are preserved in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E0E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter D with Line 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+0331 Combining Macron Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E0E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E0E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e0e |
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 | "ḏ" U+1E0F Latin Small Letter D with Line Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḏ" U+1E0F Latin Small Letter D with Line Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḏ" U+1E0F Latin Small Letter D with Line Below |
| Case Folding | "ḏ" U+1E0F Latin Small Letter D with Line Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḏ" U+1E0F Latin Small Letter D with Line Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḏ" U+1E0F Latin Small Letter D with Line 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 |