U+1EC7 "ệ" Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EC7 "ệ" Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below is a composite glyph used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific vowel sound, combining a base Latin "e" with a circumflex accent indicating a higher or mid-centralizing tone contour and a dot below marking the nặng tone, which is a low, glottalized tone. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for digital text representation, allowing accurate writing and processing of Vietnamese words such as "nghệ" meaning art or ginger. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper rendering and interchange across different platforms and applications, supporting the linguistic needs of the Vietnamese language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EC7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ẹ" U+1EB9 Latin Small Letter E with Dot Below "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ệ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ệ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EC7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EC7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ec7 |
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 | "Ệ" U+1EC6 Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ệ" U+1EC6 Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ệ" U+1EC6 Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ệ" U+1EC6 Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Dot Below |
| 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 |