U+1E22 "Ḣ" Latin Capital Letter H with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḣ
U+1E22 "Ḣ" Latin Capital Letter H with Dot Above is a precomposed glyph used in transliteration and some orthographic systems, representing a specific modification of the standard Latin letter H. The dot above the letter, known as a diacritical mark, indicates a distinct phonetic value, often denoting a voiced or breathy pronunciation in linguistic transcription, such as in the Romanization of Indic scripts or in African languages where it may represent an aspirated or implosive sound. This character serves as a precise typographical symbol in academic and specialized texts, ensuring clarity in representing sounds that are not covered by the basic Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E22 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter H 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 | "H" U+0048 Latin Capital Letter H "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e22 |
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 | "ḣ" U+1E23 Latin Small Letter H with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḣ" U+1E23 Latin Small Letter H with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḣ" U+1E23 Latin Small Letter H with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ḣ" U+1E23 Latin Small Letter H with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḣ" U+1E23 Latin Small Letter H with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḣ" U+1E23 Latin Small Letter H 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 |