U+1EBC "Ẽ" Latin Capital Letter E with Tilde Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ẽ
U+1EBC "Ẽ" Latin Capital Letter E with Tilde is a precomposed glyph representing the letter E combined with a diacritical tilde mark, and it is primarily used in the orthography of languages such as Vietnamese, where it denotes a specific vowel sound with a creaky or rising tone. This character is distinct from the standalone letter E followed by a combining tilde, as U+1EBC exists as a single encoded entity to ensure consistent rendering and text processing across digital systems. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate representation of linguistic variations in written communication, particularly for minority or historically significant languages that rely on such diacritics to distinguish meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EBC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Tilde |
| 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+0303 Combining Tilde |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EBC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ebc |
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 | "ẽ" U+1EBD Latin Small Letter E with Tilde |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẽ" U+1EBD Latin Small Letter E with Tilde |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẽ" U+1EBD Latin Small Letter E with Tilde |
| Case Folding | "ẽ" U+1EBD Latin Small Letter E with Tilde |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẽ" U+1EBD Latin Small Letter E with Tilde |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẽ" U+1EBD Latin Small Letter E with Tilde |
| 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 |