U+1E4D "ṍ" Latin Small Letter O with Tilde and Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ṍ
U+1E4D "ṍ" Latin Small Letter O with Tilde and Acute is a composite glyph used in certain Latin-based orthographies, particularly for the transcription of nasalized and accented vowels in languages such as Vietnamese. It represents the letter "o" modified by both a tilde, indicating a nasal tone, and an acute accent, which marks a high or rising pitch in tonal languages. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for precise textual representation in digital environments, allowing linguists and language speakers to accurately render words that require this specific combination of diacritics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E4D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter O with Tilde and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "õ" U+00F5 Latin Small Letter O with Tilde "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E4D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E4D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e4d |
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 | "Ṍ" U+1E4C Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde and Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṍ" U+1E4C Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde and Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṍ" U+1E4C Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde and Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṍ" U+1E4C Latin Capital Letter O with Tilde and Acute |
| 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 |