U+1E23 "ḣ" Latin Small Letter H with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ḣ
U+1E23 "ḣ" Latin Small Letter H with Dot Above is a specialized letter used primarily in the transliteration of certain African languages, such as Hausa and Ewe, where it represents a voiced glottal fricative or a distinct phoneme that differs from the plain letter h. It is also employed in some scholarly transcriptions of medieval texts or phonetic notations to indicate a specific breathy or murmured articulation. The dot above the h is a diacritical mark that modifies the base character, allowing it to denote a sound not covered by the standard Latin alphabet. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which supports a wide range of orthographic needs for minority languages and linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E23 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter H 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 | "h" U+0068 Latin Small Letter H "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e23 |
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 | "Ḣ" U+1E22 Latin Capital Letter H with Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḣ" U+1E22 Latin Capital Letter H with Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḣ" U+1E22 Latin Capital Letter H with Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḣ" U+1E22 Latin Capital Letter H 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 |