U+1E8B "ẋ" Latin Small Letter X with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ẋ
U+1E8B "ẋ" Latin Small Letter X with Dot Above is a specialized letter used primarily in historical or phonetic transcription contexts, such as in the notation of certain Slavic languages or in the Livonian language, where the dot above indicates a specific palatalization or modified pronunciation of the base letter X. It belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for use in digital text to represent this distinct sound, ensuring accurate rendering in documents that require precise linguistic representation. This character is rare in everyday usage but serves an important role in scholarly works, dictionaries, and language preservation efforts where such diacritics are essential.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter X with Dot Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "x" U+0078 Latin Small Letter X "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ẋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ẋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e8b |
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 | "Ẋ" U+1E8A Latin Capital Letter X with Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ẋ" U+1E8A Latin Capital Letter X with Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ẋ" U+1E8A Latin Capital Letter X with Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ẋ" U+1E8A Latin Capital Letter X with Dot Above |
| 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 |