U+1E65 "ṥ" Latin Small Letter S with Acute and Dot Above Unicode Character
U+1E65 "ṥ" Latin Small Letter S with Acute and Dot Above is a specialized character used primarily in transliteration and linguistic notation, particularly for representing certain sounds in ancient or scholarly texts. It combines a standard lowercase Latin "s" with two diacritical marks: an acute accent above and a dot above. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block, designed to support the precise phonetic or orthographic needs of languages such as Sanskrit or other Indic language transliterations, where it indicates a specific sibilant sound that is both palatalized and emphasized. Its usage is rare in modern everyday writing but remains important for academic disciplines like Indology, phonetics, and historical linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E65 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter S with Acute and 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 | "ś" U+015B Latin Small Letter S with Acute "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E65 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E65 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e65 |
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 | "Ṥ" U+1E64 Latin Capital Letter S with Acute and Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṥ" U+1E64 Latin Capital Letter S with Acute and Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṥ" U+1E64 Latin Capital Letter S with Acute and Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṥ" U+1E64 Latin Capital Letter S with Acute and 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 |