U+1EBB "ẻ" Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above Unicode Character

U+1EBB "ẻ" Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above is a precomposed letter used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent the low rising tone, which is indicated by the hook above the letter E as a diacritical mark. This character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for use in electronic text to accurately render the Vietnamese vowel sound when spoken with that particular tonal quality. It is distinct from the plain Latin letter E and its other accented variants, ensuring proper linguistic representation in written Vietnamese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1EBB
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above
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+0309 Combining Hook Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ẻ
HTML Hex Encoding	ẻ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBA 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1EBB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001EBB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1ebb

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	"Ẻ" U+1EBA Latin Capital Letter E with Hook Above
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ẻ" U+1EBA Latin Capital Letter E with Hook Above
Uppercase Code Point	"Ẻ" U+1EBA Latin Capital Letter E with Hook Above
Titlecase Code Point	"Ẻ" U+1EBA Latin Capital Letter E with Hook 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