U+1E25 "ḥ" Latin Small Letter H with Dot Below Unicode Character

U+1E25 "ḥ" Latin Small Letter H with Dot Below is a specialized glyph used primarily in the transliteration of Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, where it represents a voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound that does not occur in standard English. This character is composed of a standard lowercase "h" combined with a combining dot below, distinguishing it from the plain "h" in phonetic and linguistic notation. It is a crucial diacritical mark for accurate written representation of words in academic contexts, such as in the study of the Quran or biblical Hebrew, ensuring that subtle phonetic distinctions are preserved in romanized text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E25
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter H with Dot Below
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+0323 Combining Dot Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ḥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ḥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB8 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E25
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E25
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e25

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	"Ḥ" U+1E24 Latin Capital Letter H with Dot Below
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ḥ" U+1E24 Latin Capital Letter H with Dot Below
Uppercase Code Point	"Ḥ" U+1E24 Latin Capital Letter H with Dot Below
Titlecase Code Point	"Ḥ" U+1E24 Latin Capital Letter H with Dot Below
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