U+025C "ɜ" Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E Unicode Character

U+025C "ɜ" Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the open-mid central unrounded vowel sound, which is heard in English words like "nurse" when pronounced with a rhotic accent in some dialects or in the standard Southern British pronunciation of "bird." Its shape is a leftward-facing version of the standard lowercase open e (ɛ), and it plays a crucial role in linguistic transcription for describing vowel quality in various languages around the world.

General Properties

Code Point	U+025C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter Reversed Epsilon
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɜ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɜ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x025C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000025C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u025c

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	"Ɜ" U+A7AB Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɜ" U+A7AB Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɜ" U+A7AB Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɜ" U+A7AB Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open 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