U+1E2B "ḫ" Latin Small Letter H with Breve Below Unicode Character
U+1E2B "ḫ" Latin Small Letter H with Breve Below is a specialized Latin letter primarily used in transliteration and linguistic transcription, most notably to represent the voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound found in languages like Arabic, where it corresponds to the letter Ḥāʾ (ح), and in the romanization of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The breve below the "h" indicates a softer or breathier articulation compared to a standard "h", and it also appears in the transcription of other Semitic and Afroasiatic languages. This character is distinct from the similar-looking "ẖ" (Latin Small Letter H with Line Below, U+1E96) and is encoded in the Latin Extended Additional block of the Unicode standard to support accurate scholarly and linguistic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E2B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter H with Breve 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+032E Combining Breve Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E2B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e2b |
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 | "Ḫ" U+1E2A Latin Capital Letter H with Breve Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḫ" U+1E2A Latin Capital Letter H with Breve Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḫ" U+1E2A Latin Capital Letter H with Breve Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḫ" U+1E2A Latin Capital Letter H with Breve 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 |