U+1E62 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below
U+1E62 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin Extended Additional in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its lowercase variant is Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below.
The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Latin Capital Letter S, Combining Dot Below. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1E62 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ṣ (minuscule: ṣ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from an S with the addition of a dot below the letter. Its uses include:
- In the Alvarez/Hale orthography of the Tohono Oʼodham language to represent retroflex [ʂ] (Akimel O'odham and Saxton/Saxton use <sh> instead)
- the transliteration of Indic languages to represent retroflex [ʂ]
- the transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages (mostly Semitic languages) to represent an "emphatic s" [sˤ] as in Arabic ص (Ṣād) and as in the Hebrew צ (Tzadi/Ṣādī) spoken by the Jews of Yemen and North Africa
- the orthography of Yoruba in Nigeria to represent the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant (the English "sh" sound)
In HTML these are Ṣ: Ṣ and ṣ: ṣ.
The Unicode codepoints are U+1E62 for Ṣ and U+1E63 for ṣ in Latin Extended Additional range.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 7778 |
| UTF-8 | E1 B9 A2 |
| UTF-16 | 1E 62 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 1E 62 |
| URL-Quoted | %E1%B9%A2 |
| HTML hex reference | Ṣ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | á¹¢ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 35 F8 32 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni1E62 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni1E62 |
| Adobe Glyph List | Sdotbelow |
| digraph | S-. |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DOT BELOW | |
| — | |
| Latin Extended Additional | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| canonical | |
| Latin Capital Letter S Combining Dot Below | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below | |
| R |