U+1EC2 "Ể" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Hook Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ể
U+1EC2 "Ể" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Hook Above is a specialized letter used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific tonal variant of the vowel sound "ê". It combines a base Latin capital E with a circumflex accent, which indicates a higher, tighter vowel quality, and a hook above, which signifies the hỏi tone, a mid-low, falling-rising tone that starts slightly breathy. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is essential for correct Vietnamese orthography, distinguishing meaning in words like "bể" (sea) from other tonal forms of the syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EC2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Hook Above |
| 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+0309 Combining Hook Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ể |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ể |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EC2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EC2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ec2 |