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Technical information

Symbol	ë
Name	Latin small letter e with diaeresis
Unicode number	U+00EB
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 7. Letters

Description

The Unicode character ë, or U+00EB, is known as "Latin Small Letter E with Diaeresis". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category. Visually, it represents the lowercase letter 'e', with two dots (called a diaeresis or umlaut) placed above it. In various languages, including German, Dutch, and French, the diaeresis marks a change in pronunciation. For example, in Dutch, 'ë' indicates that the vowel should be pronounced separately from the one preceding it. In French, it is used to indicate that the 'e' is not silent. This character is also used in other linguistic contexts, such as transliteration of non-Latin scripts. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Latin Small Letter E with Diaeresis can depend on the language and context.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ë
HTML Entity (hex)	ë
HTML Entity (named)	ë
URL Escape Code	%C3%AB
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC3 0xAB
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001110101011
UTF-16	0x00EB
UTF-32	0x000000EB

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00EB"
CSS Code	\00EB
JavaScript	"\u00EB"
Perl	\x{00EB}
Python 2	u"\u00EB"
Python 3	\u00EB
Ruby	\u{00EB}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ë in sentence and in bold like this ë and in italic like this ë.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#235;</span>

span {
    content: "\00EB";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

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Ubuntu

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