U+1E75 "ṵ" Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Below Unicode Character
U+1E75 "ṵ" Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Below is a specialized diacritic letter used primarily in certain phonetic transcription systems, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet, to represent a type of vowel modification. The tilde placed underneath the base letter "u" typically indicates a creaky or laryngealized pronunciation, where the vocal cords are constricted to produce a distinct, tense Vocal quality. This character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is less common in standard orthographies, appearing mainly in linguistic documentation or academic works dedicated to the precise notation of speech sounds. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that linguists and typographers can accurately represent such nuanced phonetic distinctions in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E75 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Tilde Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U "̰" U+0330 Combining Tilde Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E75 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E75 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e75 |
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 | "Ṵ" U+1E74 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṵ" U+1E74 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṵ" U+1E74 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṵ" U+1E74 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde Below |
| 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 |