U+1E43 "ṃ" Latin Small Letter M with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E43 "ṃ" Latin Small Letter M with Dot Below is a modified Latin letter used primarily in transliteration systems for languages such as Sanskrit, Pali, and other Indic scripts, where the dot beneath the letter indicates a syllabic or anusvāra nasalization of the consonant. It appears in academic and linguistic texts to represent a nasalized m sound, often serving as a diacritical mark in the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) and similar standards. This character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for compatibility with digital text processing, ensuring accurate representation in scholarly works, dictionaries, and online resources that require precise phonetic or orthographic detail.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E43 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter M with Dot Below |
| 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+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e43 |
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 | "Ṃ" U+1E42 Latin Capital Letter M with Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṃ" U+1E42 Latin Capital Letter M with Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṃ" U+1E42 Latin Capital Letter M with Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṃ" U+1E42 Latin Capital Letter M with Dot 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 |