U+1E72 "Ṳ" Latin Capital Letter U with Diaeresis Below Unicode Character
U+1E72 "Ṳ" Latin Capital Letter U with Diaeresis Below is a modified version of the standard Latin letter U, featuring a diaeresis, or two small dots, placed beneath the character. This diacritical mark is used in certain orthographies and transliteration systems to indicate a specific phonetic quality, often a centralized or modified vowel sound distinct from the plain U or the more common U with diaeresis above. In practical usage, it appears in the romanization of scripts such as Sanskrit or in the writing systems of some African languages, where it helps to accurately represent vowel distinctions that are not captured by basic Latin letters. The character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in the Unicode standard, ensuring consistent digital representation across platforms for scholarly and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E72 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Diaeresis Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U "̤" U+0324 Combining Diaeresis Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E72 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e72 |
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 | "ṳ" U+1E73 Latin Small Letter U with Diaeresis Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṳ" U+1E73 Latin Small Letter U with Diaeresis Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṳ" U+1E73 Latin Small Letter U with Diaeresis Below |
| Case Folding | "ṳ" U+1E73 Latin Small Letter U with Diaeresis Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṳ" U+1E73 Latin Small Letter U with Diaeresis Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṳ" U+1E73 Latin Small Letter U with Diaeresis 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 |