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Glyph for U+1E63
Source: Noto Sans

U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below

U+1E63 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+1E00 to U+1EFF Latin Extended Additional in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+1E62 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+1E62 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0073 Latin Small Letter S, Glyph for U+0323 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+1E63 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: &#7778; and ṣ: &#7779;.

The Unicode codepoints are U+1E62 for Ṣ and U+1E63 for ṣ in Latin Extended Additional range.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 7779
UTF-8 E1 B9 A3
UTF-16 1E 63
UTF-32 00 00 1E 63
URL-Quoted %E1%B9%A3
HTML hex reference &#x1E63;
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake á¹£
AGL: Latin-4 uni1E63
AGL: Latin-5 uni1E63
Adobe Glyph List sdotbelow
digraph s-.

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DOT BELOW
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Latin Extended Additional
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0073 Latin Small Letter S Glyph for U+0323 Combining Dot Below
Lowercase (Lower) ✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+1E62 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+1E62 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+1E62 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+1E62 Latin Capital Letter S with Dot Below
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✔
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✔
Cased (Cased) ✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Lower
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✔
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+1E63 Latin Small Letter S with Dot Below
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R