U+0259 "ə" Latin Small Letter Schwa Unicode Character

U+0259 "ə" Latin Small Letter Schwa is a vowel symbol representing a mid central neutral sound, commonly known as the schwa, which is the most frequent vowel sound in English, appearing in unstressed syllables like the "a" in "about" or the "e" in "taken". In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it serves as a standard notation for this unstressed, lax vowel, and it is also used in the orthographies of some languages, such as Azerbaijani and certain Romanized African languages, to denote a distinct phonemic vowel. Its name derives from the Hebrew letter "shva," reflecting a similar concept of a reduced or neutral vowel.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0259
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Schwa
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ə
HTML Hex Encoding	ə
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0259
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000259
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0259

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	"Ə" U+018F Latin Capital Letter Schwa
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ə" U+018F Latin Capital Letter Schwa
Uppercase Code Point	"Ə" U+018F Latin Capital Letter Schwa
Titlecase Code Point	"Ə" U+018F Latin Capital Letter Schwa
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