U+1EC5 "ễ" Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Tilde Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EC5 "ễ" Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Tilde is a precomposed character used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific vowel sound, particularly in the Southern dialect, where it denotes a mid central vowel that is both rounded and nasalized. This character combines a base Latin letter "e" with a circumflex accent (^) to mark a higher, tenser quality, and a tilde (~) above it to indicate a creaky, rising tone, making it essential for accurately writing and distinguishing words in standard Vietnamese orthography. It is a single encoded character in Unicode, allowing for consistent digital representation and text processing across various platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EC5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Tilde |
| 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+0303 Combining Tilde |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ễ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ễ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EC5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ec5 |
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 | "Ễ" U+1EC4 Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Tilde |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ễ" U+1EC4 Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Tilde |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ễ" U+1EC4 Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Tilde |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ễ" U+1EC4 Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Tilde |
| 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 |