U+1EF5 "ỵ" Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Below Unicode Character

U+1EF5 "ỵ" Latin Small Letter Y with Dot Below is a specialized diacritical letter used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents a low, creaky tone on the vowel "y." This character is formed by combining a standard lowercase letter Y with a combining dot below, which is a diacritic mark that signals a falling pitch and tense articulation in the Vietnamese writing system. It appears in words such as "mỵ" which means "mica" or "smooth," and it is an essential component for accurately representing the tonal distinctions that are fundamental to the Vietnamese language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1EF5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Y 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	"y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y "̣" U+0323 Combining Dot Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ỵ
HTML Hex Encoding	ỵ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBB 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1EF5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001EF5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1ef5

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	"Ỵ" U+1EF4 Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Below
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ỵ" U+1EF4 Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Below
Uppercase Code Point	"Ỵ" U+1EF4 Latin Capital Letter Y with Dot Below
Titlecase Code Point	"Ỵ" U+1EF4 Latin Capital Letter Y 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