U+1E89 "ẉ" Latin Small Letter W with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E89 "ẉ" Latin Small Letter W with Dot Below is a specialized glyph used primarily in the orthographic transcription of certain African languages, such as Ewe and Bassa, where the dot below a consonant often indicates a modified or implosive articulation. It is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Latin Extended Additional block, allowing it to be represented alongside standard Latin letters in digital text. The character is formed by combining a base lowercase w with a combining dot below diacritic, making it distinct from the regular w and ensuring proper typographic rendering for linguistic or scholarly documentation. Though it appears infrequently in everyday writing, ẉ serves an important role in accurately representing the phonetic nuances of the languages that employ it.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E89 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter W 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 | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ẉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ẉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E89 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e89 |
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 | "Ẉ" U+1E88 Latin Capital Letter W with Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ẉ" U+1E88 Latin Capital Letter W with Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ẉ" U+1E88 Latin Capital Letter W with Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ẉ" U+1E88 Latin Capital Letter W 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 |