U+1EC8 Latin Capital Letter I with Hook Above
U+1EC8 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 I with Hook Above.
The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Latin Capital Letter I, Combining Hook Above. 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+1EC8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In typesetting, the hook above (Vietnamese: dấu hỏi) is a diacritic mark placed on top of vowels in the Vietnamese alphabet. In shape it looks like a tiny question mark without the dot underneath, or a tiny glottal stop (ʔ). For example, a capital A with a hook is "Ả", and a lower case "u" with a hook is "ủ". The hook is usually written to the right of the circumflex in conventional Vietnamese orthography. If Vietnamese characters are unavailable, it is often replaced by a question mark after the vowel (VIQR encoding).
This diacritic functions as a tone marker, indicating a "mid falling" tone (hỏi): which is "dipping" (˨˩˥) in Southern Vietnamese or "falling" (˧˩) in Northern Vietnamese; see Vietnamese language § Regional variation: Tones. The Southern "dipping" tone is similar to the questioning intonation in English.
The hook above can be used as a tone marker, but is not regarded as part of the alphabet.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 7880 |
| UTF-8 | E1 BB 88 |
| UTF-16 | 1E C8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 1E C8 |
| URL-Quoted | %E1%BB%88 |
| HTML hex reference | Ỉ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ỉ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 84 34 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni1EC8 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni1EC8 |
| Adobe Glyph List | Ihookabove |
| digraph | I2 |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH HOOK ABOVE | |
| — | |
| Latin Extended Additional | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| canonical | |
| Latin Capital Letter I Combining Hook Above | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter I with Hook Above | |
| Latin Small Letter I with Hook Above | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Capital Letter I with Hook Above | |
| Latin Capital Letter I with Hook Above | |
| Latin Capital Letter I with Hook Above | |
| Latin Capital Letter I with Hook Above | |
| Latin Small Letter I with Hook Above | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter I with Hook Above | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter I with Hook Above | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter I with Hook Above | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Capital Letter I with Hook Above | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter I with Hook Above | |
| R |