U+01B9 "ƹ" Latin Small Letter Ezh Reversed Unicode Character

U+01B9 "ƹ" Latin Small Letter Ezh Reversed is a rare typographic variant that resembles a backwards or mirrored version of the standard ezh character, which itself represents a voiced postalveolar fricative sound. Its design essentially flips the usual z-shaped ezh horizontally, creating a unique form used primarily in historical or specialized orthographies, such as certain African language transcriptions or phonetic notations from the early twentieth century. This character is part of the Latin Extended B block and is distinguished from the standard ezh by its reversed orientation, though it does not have a widely adopted modern usage in any major contemporary writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+01B9
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Ezh Reversed
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter Reversed Yogh
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ƹ
HTML Hex Encoding	ƹ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC6 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x01B9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000001B9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u01b9

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ƹ" U+01B8 Latin Capital Letter Ezh Reversed
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ƹ" U+01B8 Latin Capital Letter Ezh Reversed
Uppercase Code Point	"Ƹ" U+01B8 Latin Capital Letter Ezh Reversed
Titlecase Code Point	"Ƹ" U+01B8 Latin Capital Letter Ezh Reversed
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower