Ė ė is a letter of theLatin script, the letterE with adot above.
It is the 9thletter in theLithuanian alphabet and is also used in thePotawatomi language[1] and theCheyenne language.
It was coined byDaniel Klein, the author of the first printedgrammar of theLithuanian language,Grammatica Litvanica (1653).[2][3]
Its pronunciation in Lithuanian is[eː], contrasting withę, which is pronounced a lower[ɛː] (formerlynasalized[ɛ̃ː]) ande, pronounced[ɛ,ɛː].
The character is also used inCroatian to denote the oldyat, alongside the more usualě.
This character is also used in strictLibrary of Congress transliteration in transliterating theCyrillic letterЭ э into theLatin alphabet.
| Preview | Ė | ė | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE | LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 278 | U+0116 | 279 | U+0117 |
| UTF-8 | 196 150 | C4 96 | 196 151 | C4 97 |
| Numeric character reference | Ė | Ė | ė | ė |
| Named character reference | Ė | ė | ||
| ISO 8859-13,Windows-1257 | 203 | CB | 235 | EB |
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