U+1E26 "Ḧ" Latin Capital Letter H with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḧ
U+1E26 "Ḧ" Latin Capital Letter H with Diaeresis is a modified version of the standard Latin letter H, distinguished by two small dots placed above it, known as a diaeresis or umlaut. This character is used primarily in certain transliteration systems and in the writing of languages such as Maltese, where it represents a voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the "h" in Arabic or Hebrew, rather than indicating a change in vowel pronunciation as in German. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates accurate text representation and digital communication for these linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E26 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter H with Diaeresis |
| 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+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E26 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e26 |
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 | "ḧ" U+1E27 Latin Small Letter H with Diaeresis |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḧ" U+1E27 Latin Small Letter H with Diaeresis |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḧ" U+1E27 Latin Small Letter H with Diaeresis |
| Case Folding | "ḧ" U+1E27 Latin Small Letter H with Diaeresis |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḧ" U+1E27 Latin Small Letter H with Diaeresis |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḧ" U+1E27 Latin Small Letter H with Diaeresis |
| 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 |