U+1E5B "ṛ" Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below Unicode Character

U+1E5B "ṛ" Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below is a specialized letter used primarily in the transliteration of Indic scripts and certain phonetic notations to represent a retroflex or syllabic R sound, where the dot beneath the character acts as a diacritical mark to distinguish it from a standard alveolar R. This character often appears in scholarly works and linguistic studies of languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, and other languages of the Indian subcontinent, as well as in some African orthographies, to accurately convey a specific consonantal pronunciation that is pronounced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E5B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter R 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	"r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ṛ
HTML Hex Encoding	ṛ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB9 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E5B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E5B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e5b

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	"Ṛ" U+1E5A Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ṛ" U+1E5A Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below
Uppercase Code Point	"Ṛ" U+1E5A Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below
Titlecase Code Point	"Ṛ" U+1E5A Latin Capital Letter R 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