U+0190 "Ɛ" Latin Capital Letter Open E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0190 "Ɛ" Latin Capital Letter Open E is a letter used primarily in the orthographies of several African languages, such as Akan, Ewe, and Lingala, where it represents a vowel sound similar to the English "e" in the word "bed." It is visually distinct from the standard Latin capital E, featuring a rounded, reversed shape that resembles a backwards epsilon or a stylized numeral 3. This character is also employed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as the uppercase variant of the open-mid front unrounded vowel, though its widespread adoption is most notable in the context of African linguistic standardization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0190 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Open E |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter Epsilon |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0190 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000190 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0190 |
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 | "ɛ" U+025B Latin Small Letter Open E |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɛ" U+025B Latin Small Letter Open E |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɛ" U+025B Latin Small Letter Open E |
| Case Folding | "ɛ" U+025B Latin Small Letter Open E |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɛ" U+025B Latin Small Letter Open E |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɛ" U+025B Latin Small Letter Open 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 |