U+1E60 "Ṡ" Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Above Unicode Character
U+1E60 "Ṡ" Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Above is a modified version of the standard capital letter S, distinguished by a small dot placed directly above it, which is used in various transcription and orthographic systems to represent a specific phonetic value. In linguistic contexts, particularly in the transliteration of Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew, this character often denotes an emphatic or pharyngealized "S" sound, such as the Arabic letter ṣād. It also appears in older or specialized Latin-based alphabets for African languages and in the romanization of Indic scripts, where the dot indicates a retroflex articulation. This letter is part of the Latin Extended Additional Unicode block and is encoded for use in digital text to preserve accurate representation of these distinct sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E60 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter S 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 | "S" U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e60 |
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 | "ṡ" U+1E61 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṡ" U+1E61 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṡ" U+1E61 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ṡ" U+1E61 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṡ" U+1E61 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṡ" U+1E61 Latin Small Letter S 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 |