U+1E13 "ḓ" Latin Small Letter D with Circumflex Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ḓ
U+1E13 "ḓ" Latin Small Letter D with Circumflex Below is a specialized letter used primarily in the transcription of certain African languages, particularly in the context of linguistic documentation for languages such as Venda. It represents a voiced dental or alveolar plosive that is modified by a circumflex diacritic placed beneath the letter "d," which indicates a specific phonetic quality, such as breathy voice or a distinct tone. This character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and serves as an essential tool for accurately representing the sound systems of these languages in written form, ensuring precise orthographic and phonetic clarity in scholarly and educational materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E13 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter D with Circumflex 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+032D Combining Circumflex Accent Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E13 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E13 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e13 |
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 | "Ḓ" U+1E12 Latin Capital Letter D with Circumflex Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḓ" U+1E12 Latin Capital Letter D with Circumflex Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḓ" U+1E12 Latin Capital Letter D with Circumflex Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḓ" U+1E12 Latin Capital Letter D with Circumflex 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 |