U+1ECD "ọ" Latin Small Letter O with Dot Below Unicode Character

U+1ECD "ọ" Latin Small Letter O with Dot Below is a grapheme used primarily in the orthographies of several African languages, such as Yoruba, Igbo, and Ewe, as well as in the Vietnamese alphabet and some transliteration systems. It represents a distinct phoneme, typically a vowel pronounced with the tongue positioned low and back, and the dot below indicates a more open or breathy quality, often contrasting with the plain letter "o". This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is frequently employed in academic and linguistic texts to ensure accurate representation of tonal and phonetic distinctions in written form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1ECD
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter O with 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	"o" U+006F Latin Small Letter O "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ọ
HTML Hex Encoding	ọ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBB 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1ECD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001ECD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1ecd

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	"Ọ" U+1ECC Latin Capital Letter O with Dot Below
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ọ" U+1ECC Latin Capital Letter O with Dot Below
Uppercase Code Point	"Ọ" U+1ECC Latin Capital Letter O with Dot Below
Titlecase Code Point	"Ọ" U+1ECC Latin Capital Letter O with 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