U+AB61 "ꭡ" Latin Small Letter Iotified E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AB61 "ꭡ" Latin Small Letter Iotified E is a specialized letter from the Latin Extended-E block, primarily used in historical or phonetic transcriptions of certain medieval and early modern languages, particularly those influenced by Cyrillic script traditions. This character represents a combination of the vowel sound /e/ with a preceding iotified or palatalizing element, often indicating that the "e" is softened or preceded by a /j/ sound, as seen in Old Church Slavonic or related texts. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of rare orthographic forms that standard Latin letters cannot capture. The glyph itself resembles a standard lowercase "e" with a hook or diacritical mark, distinguishing it from similar characters like the Latin small letter e with ogonek or the Cyrillic iotified e.

General Properties

Code Point U+AB61
Version Added 8.0
Name Latin Small Letter Iotified E
Block Latin Extended-E
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꭡ
HTML Hex Encoding ꭡ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAD 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAB61
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AB61
C/C++/Java Escape \uab61

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Lowercase Yes
Cased 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