U+1EBF "ế" Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Acute Unicode Character

U+1EBF "ế" Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Acute is a precomposed character used in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific tonal variant of the vowel "e". It combines a base Latin small letter "e" with a circumflex accent (ˆ) indicating a distinct vowel quality and an acute accent (´) marking the sắc (rising) tone, crucial for distinguishing meaning in written Vietnamese. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, allowing consistent digital representation of Vietnamese text across computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1EBF
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Acute
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ê" U+00EA Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ế
HTML Hex Encoding	ế
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBA 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1EBF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001EBF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1ebf

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	"Ế" U+1EBE Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Acute
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ế" U+1EBE Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Acute
Uppercase Code Point	"Ế" U+1EBE Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Acute
Titlecase Code Point	"Ế" U+1EBE Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Acute
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