U+0246 "Ɇ" Latin Capital Letter E with Stroke Unicode Character
U+0246 "Ɇ" Latin Capital Letter E with Stroke is a modified letter used primarily in phonetic transcription and linguistic alphabets, where a horizontal line or stroke crosses through the standard capital letter E. This character is a rare but standardized glyph, included in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, and it represents a distinct sound in certain phonetic systems, such as the Americanist phonetic notation or when transcribing specific dialects. Its visual appearance differentiates it from the base letter E by adding a clear stroke, which helps linguists denote a unique vowel quality or a modified pronunciation without ambiguity. The character is not a common part of everyday writing but serves a specialized role in scholarly texts and language documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0246 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0246 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000246 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0246 |
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 | "ɇ" U+0247 Latin Small Letter E with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɇ" U+0247 Latin Small Letter E with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɇ" U+0247 Latin Small Letter E with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ɇ" U+0247 Latin Small Letter E with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɇ" U+0247 Latin Small Letter E with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɇ" U+0247 Latin Small Letter E with Stroke |
| 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 |