U+018E "Ǝ" Latin Capital Letter Reversed E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+018E "Ǝ" Latin Capital Letter Reversed E is a typographic variant of the standard Latin capital letter E, shaped as its mirror image with the horizontal stroke facing left. It is primarily used in the African reference alphabet, particularly for languages such as Yoruba, Hausa, and some other NigerCongo languages, where it represents a distinct vowel sound, typically the nearclose nearfront unrounded vowel /ɪ/ or a similar phonetic value. In linguistic transcription, it also appears in the International Phonetic Alphabet as a symbol for the voiced postalveolar approximant, though this usage is less common. Additionally, the character is sometimes employed in decorative or logo designs for its symmetrical, rotated appearance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+018E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Reversed E |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter Turned E |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x018E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000018E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u018e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ǝ" U+01DD Latin Small Letter Turned E |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǝ" U+01DD Latin Small Letter Turned E |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǝ" U+01DD Latin Small Letter Turned E |
| Case Folding | "ǝ" U+01DD Latin Small Letter Turned E |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǝ" U+01DD Latin Small Letter Turned E |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǝ" U+01DD Latin Small Letter Turned E |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |