U+01B8 "Ƹ" Latin Capital Letter Ezh Reversed Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ƹ
U+01B8 "Ƹ" Latin Capital Letter Ezh Reversed is a distinct typographical variant of the letter Ezh, which is itself derived from the Latin alphabet and resembles a reversed or mirrored lowercase 'z' with a caudate tail. This character is primarily used in linguistic transcription, particularly within the African alphabet and some phonetic notation systems, to represent a voiced palatal fricative or a similar sound that is distinct from the standard ezh (ʒ). Its capital form is designed to match the uppercase style of other Latin letters while retaining the reversed orientation, and it is often paired with its lowercase counterpart (ƹ) in specialized orthographies for languages such as the N'Ko script or in certain romanization schemes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01B8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Ezh Reversed |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter Reversed Yogh |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01b8 |
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 | "ƹ" U+01B9 Latin Small Letter Ezh Reversed |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƹ" U+01B9 Latin Small Letter Ezh Reversed |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƹ" U+01B9 Latin Small Letter Ezh Reversed |
| Case Folding | "ƹ" U+01B9 Latin Small Letter Ezh Reversed |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƹ" U+01B9 Latin Small Letter Ezh Reversed |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƹ" U+01B9 Latin Small Letter Ezh Reversed |
| 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 |