U+1EBE "Ế" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EBE "Ế" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Acute is a precomposed letter used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents the sound of the vowel "E" with both a rising-tone mark (the acute accent) and the circumflex that modifies the vowel quality. It is a distinct grapheme in the Latin Extended Additional block, encoded for use in digital text to correctly render the Vietnamese language, particularly for words like "Ếch" meaning frog. This character combines a base Latin capital E with two diacritical marks stacked above it, the circumflex first and then the acute, and it is a standard part of the Vietnamese writing system, which employs multiple tone marks and vowel modifiers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EBE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ê" U+00CA Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ế |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ế |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EBE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ebe |
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 | "ế" U+1EBF Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ế" U+1EBF Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ế" U+1EBF Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Acute |
| Case Folding | "ế" U+1EBF Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ế" U+1EBF Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ế" U+1EBF Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Acute |
| 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 |