U+1EC6 "Ệ" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EC6 "Ệ" Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below is a composite glyph used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents a distinct vowel sound modified by two diacritical marks. The circumflex (^) atop the letter indicates a high or low, gliding tone depending on context, while the dot below (ị) signifies a heavy, low, or "nặng" tone in Vietnamese romanization. This character often appears in words such as "bệnh" (meaning illness or disease) and is essential for accurately writing and reading the tonal nuances of the Vietnamese language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital interoperability and proper rendering across modern computing systems, preserving linguistic precision for over 100 million speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EC6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ẹ" U+1EB8 Latin Capital Letter E with Dot Below "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ệ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ệ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EC6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EC6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ec6 |
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 | "ệ" U+1EC7 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ệ" U+1EC7 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ệ" U+1EC7 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ệ" U+1EC7 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ệ" U+1EC7 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ệ" U+1EC7 Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| 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 |