U+1E70 "Ṱ" Latin Capital Letter T with Circumflex Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E70 "Ṱ" Latin Capital Letter T with Circumflex Below is a modified Latin letter used primarily in transliteration systems for African languages, such as those in the Bantu family, where it represents a voiceless dental or alveolar plosive sound. The circumflex diacritic placed beneath the T indicates a specific phonetic modification, often denoting a breathy or implosive articulation. This character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is rarely seen in everyday English text, but it is essential for accurate linguistic representation in academic writing and digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E70 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter T with Circumflex Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "T" U+0054 Latin Capital Letter T "̭" U+032D Combining Circumflex Accent Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e70 |
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 | "ṱ" U+1E71 Latin Small Letter T with Circumflex Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṱ" U+1E71 Latin Small Letter T with Circumflex Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṱ" U+1E71 Latin Small Letter T with Circumflex Below |
| Case Folding | "ṱ" U+1E71 Latin Small Letter T with Circumflex Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṱ" U+1E71 Latin Small Letter T with Circumflex Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṱ" U+1E71 Latin Small Letter T with Circumflex 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 |