U+1EBA "Ẻ" Latin Capital Letter E with Hook Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ẻ
U+1EBA "Ẻ" Latin Capital Letter E with Hook Above is a precomposed grapheme used in the Vietnamese alphabet, where the hook above diacritic signifies a falling then rising tonal contour, specifically the hỏi tone, which is pronounced with a slight drop and subsequent rise in pitch. This character is formed by combining a standard capital letter E with a hook diacritic placed over it, and it appears in words like "bẻ" meaning to break or "kẻ" meaning a person, reflecting its role in distinguishing lexical meaning through tone. In modern digital text, "Ẻ" is encoded as a single Unicode code point for efficient processing, though it can also be represented as the sequence of a base letter E followed by the combining hook above character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EBA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Hook Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "E" U+0045 Latin Capital Letter E "̉" U+0309 Combining Hook Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EBA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EBA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eba |
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 | "ẻ" U+1EBB Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẻ" U+1EBB Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẻ" U+1EBB Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above |
| Case Folding | "ẻ" U+1EBB Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẻ" U+1EBB Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẻ" U+1EBB Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above |
| 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 |