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
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its lowercase variant is
The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs
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 |
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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¢ |
AGL: Latin-4 | uni1E62 |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni1E62 |
Adobe Glyph List | Sdotbelow |
digraph | S-. |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DOT BELOW | |
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Latin Extended Additional | |
Uppercase Letter | |
Latin | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
canonical | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
No | |
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Yes | |
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No | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Upper | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |