U+018F "Ə" Latin Capital Letter Schwa Unicode Character
U+018F "Ə" Latin Capital Letter Schwa is a distinct character used in various Latin-based orthographies, primarily to represent the mid central vowel sound, which is the most common vowel in many languages like English, though it is more systematically employed in alphabets for languages such as Azerbaijani, where it denotes the sound /æ/, as well as in several other languages of Africa and the Americas. Its typographic form is an uppercase version of the lowercase schwa (ə) and should not be confused with the mirror-image Latin letter Epsilon (Ɛ) or the reversed E (ɘ). In Unicode, it was encoded separately to ensure proper case mapping and typographic distinction, enabling consistent representation in digital text for linguistic and pedagogical purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+018F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Schwa |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ə |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ə |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x018F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000018F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u018f |
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 | "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| Simple Case Folding | "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| Case Folding | "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| 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 |