U+1E62 "Ṣ" Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ṣ
U+1E62 "Ṣ" Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below is a modified version of the standard Latin letter S, distinguished by a small dot placed directly underneath it. This diacritical mark alters the pronunciation of the base letter, typically indicating a retroflex or emphatic sound in phonetic transcription systems and in the orthography of various languages, most notably in the transliteration of Arabic, where it represents the letter ṣād (ص), as well as in African languages like Yoruba. The character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is considered distinct from the plain S, meaning words spelled with Ṣ are treated as separate entries in lexicons and sorted accordingly in digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E62 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below |
| 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+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E62 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e62 |
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 | "ṣ" U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṣ" U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṣ" U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ṣ" U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṣ" U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṣ" U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below |
| 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 |