U+1E88 "Ẉ" Latin Capital Letter W with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E88 "Ẉ" Latin Capital Letter W with Dot Below is a specialized glyph used primarily in certain African language orthographies, such as in the transcription of the Manding languages like Bambara, where it represents a voiced labial-velar approximant with a specific phonetic nuance indicated by the diacritical dot below. This dot below signals a modification of the standard Latin W, often denoting a bilabial or implosive variant in linguistic transcription systems. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text can accurately represent these nuanced sounds, supporting the preservation and written communication of languages that use this distinct letter. The character is rarely seen in general typography, but it plays a crucial role in the accurate digital encoding of minority languages and scholarly linguistic work.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E88 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter W 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 | "W" U+0057 Latin Capital Letter W "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e88 |
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 | "ẉ" U+1E89 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẉ" U+1E89 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẉ" U+1E89 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ẉ" U+1E89 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẉ" U+1E89 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẉ" U+1E89 Latin Small Letter W 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 |