Natlang Uses of Dot Above

Dot Above in Unicode

Precomposed Letters with Dot Above

˙

◌̇

Ȧ

ȧ

Ǡ

ǡ

Ḃ

ḃ

Ċ

ċ

Ḋ

ḋ

Ė

U+02D9

U+0307

U+0226

U+0227

U+01E0

U+01E1

U+1E02

U+1E03

U+010A

U+010B

U+1E0A

U+1E0B

U+0116

Dot Above

Combining Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter A With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter A With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter A With Dot Above And Macron

Latin Small Letter A With Dot Above And Macron

Latin Capital Letter B With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter B With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter C With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter C With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter D With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter D With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter E With Dot Above

ė

Ḟ

ḟ

Ġ

ġ

Ḣ

ḣ

İ

i

Ṁ

ṁ

Ṅ

ṅ

U+0117

U+1E1E

U+1E1F

U+0120

U+0121

U+1E22

U+1E23

U+0130

U+0069

​ U+1E40

U+1E41

U+1E44

U+1E45

Latin Small Letter E With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter F With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter F With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter G With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter G With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter H With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter H With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter I With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter I

Latin Capital Letter M With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter M With Dot Above

​ Latin Capital Letter N With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter N With Dot Above

Note: In most languages i is the lower case version of I, but in Turkish İ and i resp. I and ı go together. If Turkish case is used, you need to make sure that various software handles that correctly. For example dictionaries need to sort the letters in the right order.

Ȯ

ȯ

Ȱ

ȱ

Ṗ

ṗ

Ṙ

ṙ

Ṡ

ṡ

ẛ

Ṥ

ṥ

U+022E

U+022F

U+0230

U+0231

U+1E56

U+1E57

U+1E58

U+1E59

U+1E60

U+1E61

U+1E9B

U+1E64

U+1E65

Latin Capital Letter O With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter O With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter O With Dot Above And Macron

Latin Small Letter O With Dot Above And Macron

Latin Capital Letter P With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter P With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter R With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter R With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter S With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter S With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter Long S With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter S With Acute And Dot Above

Latin Small Letter S With Acute And Dot Above

Ṧ

ṧ

Ṩ

ṩ

Ṫ

ṫ

Ẇ

ẇ

Ẋ

ẋ

Ẏ

ẏ

Ż

U+1E66

U+1E67

U+1E68

U+1E69

U+1E6A

U+1E6B

U+1E86

U+1E87

U+1E8A

U+1E8B

U+1E8E

U+1E8F

U+017B

Latin Capital Letter S With Caron And Dot Above

Latin Small Letter S With Caron And Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter S With Dot Below And Dot Above

Latin Small Letter S With Dot Below And Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter T With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter T With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter W With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter W With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter X With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter X With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter Y With Dot Above

Latin Small Letter Y With Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter Z With Dot Above

ż

U+017C

Latin Small Letter Z With Dot Above

Natlang Examples

Uses of Dot Above

Use	Language	Letters	Notes
Change of place of articulation	ISO 15919 romanization of Gurmukhī	Ṁṁ /ŋ/	Ṁṁ is realized as [m] before certain consonants.[1]
Raised vowel	Livonian	Ȯȯ /ʊ/, Ȱȱ /ʊː/
Retroflex consonant	Polish	Dż dż /d͡ʐ/, Żż /ʐ/	These sounds are laminal postalveolar, rather than "true retroflex".[2]
Other	ISO 15919 romanization of Indic scripts	Ṁṁ, Ṅṅ	Ṅṅ is used for transcribing the Indic diacritic anusvāra before velar consonants. Ṁṁ is used for a simplified romanization of anusvāra in all positions.[3]

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet