U+1E5C "Ṝ" Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below and Macron Unicode Character
U+1E5C "Ṝ" Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below and Macron is a specialized grapheme used primarily in the scholarly transliteration of ancient scripts, such as Vedic Sanskrit and other Indic languages, where it represents a retroflex or distinct 'r' sound with both a diacritical dot beneath the letter to indicate it is a retroflex consonant and a macron above to mark a long vowel length. This compound character combines three distinct typographic features the base Latin letter R, an underdot, and a macron, allowing for precise phonetic transcription in linguistic and academic texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms, enabling accurate rendering in scholarly publications, digital archives, and language documentation projects that require detailed annotation of ancient or reconstructed pronunciations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E5C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ṛ" U+1E5A Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e5c |
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 | "ṝ" U+1E5D Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṝ" U+1E5D Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṝ" U+1E5D Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| Case Folding | "ṝ" U+1E5D Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṝ" U+1E5D Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṝ" U+1E5D Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| 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 |