U+1E5D "ṝ" Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below and Macron Unicode Character
U+1E5D "ṝ" Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below and Macron is a specialized diacritic combination used primarily in the transliteration of Vedic Sanskrit to represent a long syllabic retroflex r sound, often denoted as ṝ in scholarly texts. The dot below indicates that the letter is retroflex, pronounced with the tongue curled back toward the roof of the mouth, while the macron above signals that the vowel is long, extending its duration. This character appears in certain academic and liturgical contexts where precise phonetic transcription is required, such as in transliterations of the Rigveda or other ancient Indian scriptures. It is rarely encountered in everyday writing and is supported in Unicode primarily to facilitate accurate digital representation of these specialized linguistic scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E5D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ṛ" U+1E5B Latin Small Letter R with Dot Below "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E5D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e5d |
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 | "Ṝ" U+1E5C Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṝ" U+1E5C Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṝ" U+1E5C Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṝ" U+1E5C Latin Capital Letter R with Dot Below and Macron |
| 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 |