What ė means
In Lithuanian, yes: it is a distinct letter. Replacing it with e changes a word's spelling. Potawatomi also uses it; in Cheyenne, the dot marks an e spoken in a whisper.
Why might a Lithuanian message omit ė?
A phone message may drop diacritics. Plain e may stand in for ė, but a Lithuanian name keeps its standard spelling.
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Who writes ė
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ė show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ė
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How to type or find ė
- Search it as
- dotted e · Lithuanian e · type ė
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
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\0117Lithuanian layout
Use its dedicated ė key.
Phone
Hold e and select ė if offered.
Character picker
Search U0117 in a picker that supports code-point search.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ė
HTML hex
ė
CSS content
content: "\0117";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%C4%97
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.