U+1E41 "ṁ" Latin Small Letter M with Dot Above Unicode Character

U+1E41 "ṁ" Latin Small Letter M with Dot Above is a modified letter used primarily in transliteration systems for writing languages such as Sanskrit, where it often represents the anusvara, a nasalization or homorganic nasal sound preceding a following consonant. This character extends the basic Latin alphabet by adding a diacritical dot above the letter M, allowing for precise phonetic transcription in scholarly and linguistic contexts. It is encoded in the Latin Extended Additional block of Unicode, ensuring consistent representation across digital platforms for texts involving Indic language transliteration or other linguistic notation systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E41
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter M with Dot Above
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ṁ
HTML Hex Encoding	ṁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB9 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E41
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E41
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e41

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	"Ṁ" U+1E40 Latin Capital Letter M with Dot Above
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ṁ" U+1E40 Latin Capital Letter M with Dot Above
Uppercase Code Point	"Ṁ" U+1E40 Latin Capital Letter M with Dot Above
Titlecase Code Point	"Ṁ" U+1E40 Latin Capital Letter M with Dot Above
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