U+1E58 "Ṙ" Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Above Unicode Character
U+1E58 "Ṙ" Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Above is a modified Latin letter used primarily in phonetic transcription and some orthographies, notably in the transliteration of certain languages such as Sanskrit or other Indic scripts, where it represents a retroflex or rhotic sound. The dot above the capital R serves as a diacritical mark to indicate a specific pronunciation distinct from the plain letter R, often accompanying other dot-above or underdot characters in scholarly or linguistic texts. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Latin Extended Additional block and can be composed or represented in digital text using Unicode normalization forms, ensuring consistent rendering across platforms and fonts that support this range.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E58 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "R" U+0052 Latin Capital Letter R "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e58 |
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 | "ṙ" U+1E59 Latin Small Letter R with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṙ" U+1E59 Latin Small Letter R with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṙ" U+1E59 Latin Small Letter R with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ṙ" U+1E59 Latin Small Letter R with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṙ" U+1E59 Latin Small Letter R with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṙ" U+1E59 Latin Small Letter R with Dot Above |
| 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 |