U+1E79 "ṹ" Latin Small Letter U with Tilde and Acute Unicode Character
U+1E79 "ṹ" Latin Small Letter U with Tilde and Acute is a precomposed Latin letter used primarily in certain African languages, such as Yoruba and some orthographies of the N'Ko script, where it represents a mid-rising or high tone variant of the vowel "u" with additional nasalization indicated by the tilde. It combines a standard lowercase "u" with two diacritical marks: a tilde above the letter, which typically denotes a nasalized pronunciation, and an acute accent above that tilde, which signals a high or rising tone in tonal language systems. This character ensures that specific phonetic distinctions are accurately represented in digital text, avoiding the need for separate combining diacritics that could cause rendering or processing issues in complex script environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E79 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter U with Tilde and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ũ" U+0169 Latin Small Letter U with Tilde "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e79 |
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 | "Ṹ" U+1E78 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde and Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṹ" U+1E78 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde and Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṹ" U+1E78 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde and Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṹ" U+1E78 Latin Capital Letter U with Tilde and Acute |
| 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 |