U+01DD "ǝ" Latin Small Letter Turned E Unicode Character

U+01DD "ǝ" Latin Small Letter Turned E is a typographic variant of the standard letter e, rotated 180 degrees, and primarily represents a mid central vowel sound, often referred to as a schwa, in the International Phonetic Alphabet where it is used to transcribe the unstressed vowel in words like the second syllable of "sofa." Beyond phonetics, it appears in the orthographies of several African languages, such as those in the Niger–Congo family, where it denotes a distinct vowel quality different from a regular e, and it also features in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, serving as a necessary character for accurate linguistic representation and digital text processing of these languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+01DD
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Turned E
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ǝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ǝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC7 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x01DD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000001DD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u01dd

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	"Ǝ" U+018E Latin Capital Letter Reversed E
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ǝ" U+018E Latin Capital Letter Reversed E
Uppercase Code Point	"Ǝ" U+018E Latin Capital Letter Reversed E
Titlecase Code Point	"Ǝ" U+018E Latin Capital Letter Reversed E
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