U+1EC0 "Ề" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EC0 "Ề" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Grave is a precomposed character used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents the vowel "E" pronounced with a low, falling tone, as indicated by the grave accent, while the circumflex denotes the vowel's quality as a higher, more closed sound. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is typically employed in romanized Vietnamese text to accurately reflect tonal distinctions, making it essential for proper spelling and pronunciation in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EC0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Grave |
| 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+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ề |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ề |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ec0 |
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 | "ề" U+1EC1 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Grave |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ề" U+1EC1 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Grave |
| Simple Case Folding | "ề" U+1EC1 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Grave |
| Case Folding | "ề" U+1EC1 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ề" U+1EC1 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Grave |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ề" U+1EC1 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Grave |
| 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 |