U+1E15 "ḕ" Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Grave Unicode Character
U+1E15 "ḕ" Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Grave is a precomposed Latin letter that combines a base lowercase "e" with two diacritical marks: a macron (a horizontal line above the letter) indicating a long vowel sound, and a grave accent (a backward-slanting mark) denoting a specific tonal or stress pattern, such as a falling tone. This character is primarily used in the scholarly transcription of ancient or medieval languages, including Old English, Latin, and certain phonetic notations, where it helps to precisely represent vowel length and pitch accent in a single glyph. As part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, it facilitates accurate text rendering for linguistic research and digital archiving without requiring separate combining marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E15 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ē" U+0113 Latin Small Letter E with Macron "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e15 |
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 | "Ḕ" U+1E14 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḕ" U+1E14 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḕ" U+1E14 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḕ" U+1E14 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Grave |
| 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 |