U+1E69 "ṩ" Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below and Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E69 "ṩ" Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below and Dot Above is a specialized Latin letter used primarily in the romanization and transliteration of certain languages, such as in academic or linguistic contexts like the transcription of Vedic Sanskrit or other Indic scripts. It is formed by adding a combining dot below (U+0323) and a combining dot above (U+0307) to the base letter 's', and it typically represents a distinct phonetic value, often a sibilant sound that requires tonal or articulatory contrast. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block, designed to support precise orthographic representation beyond standard ASCII, and its uppercase counterpart is U+1E68, the capital S with dot below and dot above.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E69 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below 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 | "ṣ" U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E69 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E69 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e69 |
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 | "Ṩ" U+1E68 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below and Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṩ" U+1E68 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below and Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṩ" U+1E68 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below and Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṩ" U+1E68 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below 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 |