U+1EB9 "ẹ" Latin Small Letter E with Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EB9 "ẹ" Latin Small Letter E with Dot Below is a precomposed glyph used primarily in the standardized orthographies of several African and Austronesian languages, including Yoruba, Igbo, and Vietnamese. In these writing systems, the diacritical dot beneath the letter modifies the vowel's sound, typically indicating a lowered or more open vowel quality, or in the case of Vietnamese, it represents the distinct "nặng" (heavy) tone when appearing in certain syllables. This character is essential for accurate phonetic representation and is stored in Unicode under the Latin Extended Additional block, ensuring consistent digital display and text processing across platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EB9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E 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 | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ẹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ẹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eb9 |
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 | "Ẹ" U+1EB8 Latin Capital Letter E with Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ẹ" U+1EB8 Latin Capital Letter E with Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ẹ" U+1EB8 Latin Capital Letter E with Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ẹ" U+1EB8 Latin Capital Letter E 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 |