U+1E2C "Ḭ" Latin Capital Letter I with Tilde Below Unicode Character
U+1E2C "Ḭ" Latin Capital Letter I with Tilde Below is a specialized letter used primarily in the transliteration of certain African and Native American languages, as well as in phonetic notation, where it represents a vowel sound that combines a standard "I" with a diacritic tilde placed beneath it. This diacritic typically indicates a nasalized pronunciation or a specific tonal modification, allowing linguists and language preservationists to accurately transcribe sounds that do not have a direct equivalent in the standard Latin alphabet. The character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is rarely used in everyday writing, but it serves an important role in scholarly works, dictionaries, and pedagogical materials for languages such as Nambikwara or certain Vute dialects. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that these phonetic distinctions can be encoded consistently across digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E2C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter I with Tilde Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I "̰" U+0330 Combining Tilde Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e2c |
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 | "ḭ" U+1E2D Latin Small Letter I with Tilde Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḭ" U+1E2D Latin Small Letter I with Tilde Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḭ" U+1E2D Latin Small Letter I with Tilde Below |
| Case Folding | "ḭ" U+1E2D Latin Small Letter I with Tilde Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḭ" U+1E2D Latin Small Letter I with Tilde Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḭ" U+1E2D Latin Small Letter I with Tilde 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 |