U+1E1C "Ḝ" Latin Capital Letter E with Cedilla and Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḝ
U+1E1C "Ḝ" Latin Capital Letter E with Cedilla and Breve is a specialized letter used in certain Latin-based orthographies, primarily for transcribing languages that require both a cedilla underneath to indicate a softening or palatalization of the vowel and a breve above to denote a short pronunciation. This character appears in historical or scholarly contexts, such as in the romanization of Arabic or in some African languages, where precise phonetic distinctions are necessary. It is composed of a base Latin capital letter E combined with two diacritical marks, and it has a corresponding lowercase form, U+1E1D "ḝ".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E1C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Cedilla and Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ȩ" U+0228 Latin Capital Letter E with Cedilla "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E1C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e1c |
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 | "ḝ" U+1E1D Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla and Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḝ" U+1E1D Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla and Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḝ" U+1E1D Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla and Breve |
| Case Folding | "ḝ" U+1E1D Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla and Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḝ" U+1E1D Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla and Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḝ" U+1E1D Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla and Breve |
| 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 |