U+1E1A "Ḛ" Latin Capital Letter E with Tilde Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḛ
U+1E1A "Ḛ" Latin Capital Letter E with Tilde Below is a modified version of the standard Latin letter E, distinguished by a small tilde diacritic placed directly beneath it. This character is primarily used in certain phonetic transcription systems and in the orthography of some African languages, where the tilde below indicates a specific pronunciation, often involving nasalization or a modified vowel quality. It is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which supports a wide range of diacritical markings for scholarly and linguistic writing. The lowercase counterpart for this letter is U+1E1B "ḛ", ensuring both cases are available for accurate text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E1A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Tilde Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "E" U+0045 Latin Capital Letter E "̰" U+0330 Combining Tilde Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e1a |
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 | "ḛ" U+1E1B Latin Small Letter E with Tilde Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḛ" U+1E1B Latin Small Letter E with Tilde Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḛ" U+1E1B Latin Small Letter E with Tilde Below |
| Case Folding | "ḛ" U+1E1B Latin Small Letter E with Tilde Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḛ" U+1E1B Latin Small Letter E with Tilde Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḛ" U+1E1B Latin Small Letter E with Tilde 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 |