U+1E6B "ṫ" Latin Small Letter T with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ṫ
U+1E6B "ṫ" Latin Small Letter T with Dot Above is a specialized character used primarily in the transliteration of certain writing systems, most notably for representing the letter "t" with a superscript diacritical dot in the transliteration of Arabic script, where it serves as a distinct orthographic mark. It is also utilized in some medievalist and phonetic contexts to indicate a specific articulation or etymological distinction. This character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is composed of the base Latin letter "t" combined with a combining dot above, allowing it to function as a separate glyph in digital text processing for academic and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E6B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter T 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 | "t" U+0074 Latin Small Letter T "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E6B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E6B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e6b |
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 | "Ṫ" U+1E6A Latin Capital Letter T with Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṫ" U+1E6A Latin Capital Letter T with Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṫ" U+1E6A Latin Capital Letter T with Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṫ" U+1E6A Latin Capital Letter T 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 |