U+1E2A "Ḫ" Latin Capital Letter H with Breve Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E2A "Ḫ" Latin Capital Letter H with Breve Below is a specialized letter used primarily in linguistic transcriptions and transliterations, particularly for Semitic languages like Arabic and Akkadian, where it represents a voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound similar to the Arabic letter Ḫāʼ. It consists of a standard capital H combined with a breve diacritic mark placed beneath the letter, which distinguishes it from other H variants. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is employed in academic contexts to accurately denote specific phonemes that do not have a direct equivalent in basic Latin script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E2A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter H with Breve Below |
| 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+032E Combining Breve Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E2A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e2a |
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 | "ḫ" U+1E2B Latin Small Letter H with Breve Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḫ" U+1E2B Latin Small Letter H with Breve Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḫ" U+1E2B Latin Small Letter H with Breve Below |
| Case Folding | "ḫ" U+1E2B Latin Small Letter H with Breve Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḫ" U+1E2B Latin Small Letter H with Breve Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḫ" U+1E2B Latin Small Letter H with Breve Below |
| 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 |