U+0229 "ȩ" Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0229 "ȩ" Latin Small Letter E with Cedilla is a typographic variant of the letter "e" distinguished by a cedilla diacritic, a hook shaped mark placed beneath the character, and it is primarily used in transliteration systems for certain African languages such as Mfumte and in the scientific notation of the Latin language to represent a palatalized or soft "e" sound. Its presence in the Unicode standard ensures that this specific letter can be reliably represented in digital text across different platforms and fonts, making it available for linguistic documentation and historical or specialized typesetting without relying on unreliable combining character sequences. While it is relatively obscure in common modern usage, it serves an important function for precise phonetic and orthographic representation where the distinction between a plain "e" and this cedilla marked variant is meaningful.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ȩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ȩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xC8 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x0229 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00000229 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u0229 |
Unicode Properties