U+025D "ɝ" Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ɝ
U+025D "ɝ" Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E with Hook is a phonetic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a rhotacized mid central vowel, specifically a stressed, r-colored schwa sound, as heard in the American English pronunciation of words like "bird" and "nurse." It combines the shape of a reversed epsilon (indicating an open-mid central vowel) with a rightward hook at the top, which denotes rhotacization or "r-coloring." This character is distinct from its unstressed counterpart, U+025A "ɚ," and plays a key role in accurately transcribing certain dialects of English and other languages where such a vowel sound occurs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+025D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E with Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Reversed Epsilon Hook |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ɝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ɝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x025D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000025D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u025d |