U+1E7E "Ṿ" Latin Capital Letter V with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ṿ
U+1E7E "Ṿ" Latin Capital Letter V with Dot Below is a modified version of the standard Latin letter V, distinguished by a combining dot placed directly beneath it. This character is primarily used in certain transliteration and transcription systems, particularly for representing specific sounds in languages such as Vietnamese or in academic contexts like the romanization of Sanskrit or other Indic scripts, where the dot below often indicates a retroflex or dental articulation. It belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for compatibility with digital text, allowing precise orthographic representation that would otherwise require separate formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E7E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter V with Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "V" U+0056 Latin Capital Letter V "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E7E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e7e |
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 | "ṿ" U+1E7F Latin Small Letter V with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṿ" U+1E7F Latin Small Letter V with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṿ" U+1E7F Latin Small Letter V with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ṿ" U+1E7F Latin Small Letter V with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṿ" U+1E7F Latin Small Letter V with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṿ" U+1E7F Latin Small Letter V with Dot 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 |