U+1E1F "ḟ" Latin Small Letter F with Dot Above Unicode Character
U+1E1F "ḟ" Latin Small Letter F with Dot Above is a specialized glyph used primarily in linguistic transcriptions and certain orthographic systems. It consists of the standard lowercase Latin letter f combined with a combining dot above, a diacritical mark that can indicate a specific phonetic quality, such as a palatalized or lenited articulation, in contexts like Old Irish or other historical language studies. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block, which was designed to support the notation of various European and African languages as well as scholarly transliterations. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent such nuanced pronunciations without relying on visual approximations or workarounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E1F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter F with Dot Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E1F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E1F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e1f |
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 | "Ḟ" U+1E1E Latin Capital Letter F with Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḟ" U+1E1E Latin Capital Letter F with Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḟ" U+1E1E Latin Capital Letter F with Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḟ" U+1E1E Latin Capital Letter F with Dot Above |
| 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 |