U+1E1A "Ḛ" Latin Capital Letter E with Tilde Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1E1A "Ḛ" Latin Capital Letter E with Tilde Below is a modified version of the standard Latin letter E, distinguished by a small tilde diacritic placed directly beneath it. This character is primarily used in certain phonetic transcription systems and in the orthography of some African languages, where the tilde below indicates a specific pronunciation, often involving nasalization or a modified vowel quality. It is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which supports a wide range of diacritical markings for scholarly and linguistic writing. The lowercase counterpart for this letter is U+1E1B "ḛ", ensuring both cases are available for accurate text representation.
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Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex Below
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Latin Small Letter E with Tilde Below
General Properties
Code Point
U+1E1A
Name
Latin Capital Letter E with Tilde Below
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ḛ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ḛ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xB8 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1E1A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001E1A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1e1a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin