U+1E7D "ṽ" Latin Small Letter V with Tilde Unicode Character

U+1E7D "ṽ" Latin Small Letter V with Tilde is a specialized character used primarily in phonetic transcription and some African language orthographies. It represents a labiodental nasal sound, where the tilde diacritic modifies the base letter "v" to indicate nasalization in certain linguistic contexts. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and serves as the lowercase representation of its uppercase counterpart, U+1E7C "Ṽ". While not commonly found in everyday text, "ṽ" is essential for accurate representation in academic works on phonetics, such as in the International Phonetic Alphabet, and for writing languages like Herero or Duala where nasalized consonants occur.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E7D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter V with Tilde
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V "̃" U+0303 Combining Tilde

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ṽ
HTML Hex Encoding	ṽ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB9 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E7D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E7D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e7d

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	"Ṽ" U+1E7C Latin Capital Letter V with Tilde
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ṽ" U+1E7C Latin Capital Letter V with Tilde
Uppercase Code Point	"Ṽ" U+1E7C Latin Capital Letter V with Tilde
Titlecase Code Point	"Ṽ" U+1E7C Latin Capital Letter V with Tilde
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