U+1E1E "Ḟ" Latin Capital Letter F with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḟ
U+1E1E "Ḟ" Latin Capital Letter F with Dot Above is a specialized grapheme used primarily in historical or linguistic orthographies, most notably in the pre-1976 spelling of Irish Gaelic to represent a lenited "f" sound, where the dot above (a diacritic known as a "ponc séimhithe") indicates a change in pronunciation or grammatical mutation. While not common in modern standard text, it remains part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is utilized in scholarly contexts, such as transcription of Old Irish or other medieval manuscripts. The character combines a standard capital F with a combining dot above, distinguishing it from the similar but lowercase character U+1E1F "ḟ".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E1E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter F with Dot Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "F" U+0046 Latin Capital Letter F "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E1E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E1E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e1e |
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 | "ḟ" U+1E1F Latin Small Letter F with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḟ" U+1E1F Latin Small Letter F with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḟ" U+1E1F Latin Small Letter F with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ḟ" U+1E1F Latin Small Letter F with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḟ" U+1E1F Latin Small Letter F with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḟ" U+1E1F Latin Small Letter F with Dot Above |
| 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 |