U+1E27 "ḧ" Latin Small Letter H with Diaeresis Unicode Character
U+1E27 "ḧ" Latin Small Letter H with Diaeresis is a specialized glyph used in certain Latin-based orthographies, most notably in the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet, where it represents a distinct sound, the voiceless pharyngeal fricative similar to the "ḥ" in Arabic. It is formed by adding a diaeresis, or two dots, above the standard lowercase letter "h" and is encoded in the Unicode Latin Extended Additional block alongside its uppercase counterpart U+1E26 "Ḧ". This character is separate from the more common "h" with a combining diaeresis, as it has a unique code point to ensure proper representation and processing in digital text systems. In practice, it appears primarily in scholarly or linguistic contexts, such as transliterations and dictionaries, rather than in everyday English usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E27 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter H with Diaeresis |
| 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+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E27 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e27 |
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 | "Ḧ" U+1E26 Latin Capital Letter H with Diaeresis |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḧ" U+1E26 Latin Capital Letter H with Diaeresis |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḧ" U+1E26 Latin Capital Letter H with Diaeresis |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḧ" U+1E26 Latin Capital Letter H with Diaeresis |
| 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 |