U+1E12 "Ḓ" Latin Capital Letter D with Circumflex Below Unicode Character
U+1E12 "Ḓ" Latin Capital Letter D with Circumflex Below is a specialized orthographic symbol used primarily in the transcription of certain African languages, such as Venda, where it represents a voiced dental plosive pronounced with the tongue positioned against the upper teeth, similar to the English "d" but with a distinct dental articulation. The circumflex below the letter "D" serves as a diacritical mark to modify the base consonant, distinguishing it from a plain "D" and enabling accurate representation of phonemic contrasts that are essential for proper pronunciation and meaning in written texts. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which includes various letters with diacritics to support linguistic diversity and scholarly work.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E12 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter D with Circumflex 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+032D Combining Circumflex Accent Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E12 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e12 |
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 | "ḓ" U+1E13 Latin Small Letter D with Circumflex Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḓ" U+1E13 Latin Small Letter D with Circumflex Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḓ" U+1E13 Latin Small Letter D with Circumflex Below |
| Case Folding | "ḓ" U+1E13 Latin Small Letter D with Circumflex Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḓ" U+1E13 Latin Small Letter D with Circumflex Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḓ" U+1E13 Latin Small Letter D with Circumflex 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 |