U+1E7F "ṿ" Latin Small Letter V with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E7F "ṿ" Latin Small Letter V with Dot Below is a specialized glyph used primarily in the transliteration and scholarly transcription of certain ancient and Semitic languages, such as Vedic Sanskrit and Aramaic. The dot beneath the letter v indicates a specific phonetic quality, often representing a voiced labiodental fricative that is distinct from a plain v, or it can serve to denote the consonant "v" with a particular diacritical marking in linguistic notation. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, allowing digital representation of texts that require precise orthographic distinctions for accurate linguistic analysis and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E7F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter V with Dot Below |
| 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+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E7F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E7F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e7f |
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 | "Ṿ" U+1E7E Latin Capital Letter V with Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṿ" U+1E7E Latin Capital Letter V with Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṿ" U+1E7E Latin Capital Letter V with Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṿ" U+1E7E Latin Capital Letter V with Dot 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 |