U+1EBA "Ẻ" Latin Capital Letter E with Hook Above Unicode Character

U+1EBA "Ẻ" Latin Capital Letter E with Hook Above is a precomposed grapheme used in the Vietnamese alphabet, where the hook above diacritic signifies a falling then rising tonal contour, specifically the hỏi tone, which is pronounced with a slight drop and subsequent rise in pitch. This character is formed by combining a standard capital letter E with a hook diacritic placed over it, and it appears in words like "bẻ" meaning to break or "kẻ" meaning a person, reflecting its role in distinguishing lexical meaning through tone. In modern digital text, "Ẻ" is encoded as a single Unicode code point for efficient processing, though it can also be represented as the sequence of a base letter E followed by the combining hook above character.