U+1E61 "ṡ" Latin Small Letter S with Dot Above Unicode Character

U+1E61 "ṡ" Latin Small Letter S with Dot Above is a specialized glyph used primarily in linguistic transcription and certain orthographies, such as older Irish or Middle English texts, to indicate a specific phonetic value like a voiced or palatalized "s" sound. It consists of a standard lowercase "s" with a small dot positioned directly above the letter, distinguishing it from the plain "s" and other diacritic variants. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block, which supports a wide range of scholarly and historical writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E61
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter S with Dot Above
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ṡ
HTML Hex Encoding	ṡ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB9 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E61
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E61
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e61

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	"Ṡ" U+1E60 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Above
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ṡ" U+1E60 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Above
Uppercase Code Point	"Ṡ" U+1E60 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Above
Titlecase Code Point	"Ṡ" U+1E60 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Above
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