U+029A "ʚ" Latin Small Letter Closed Open E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʚ
U+029A "ʚ" Latin Small Letter Closed Open E is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a mid central rounded vowel, specifically a lowered version of the open-mid central rounded vowel [ɞ], though its precise usage has varied over time and across typographic traditions. It appears graphically as an epsilon-like letter with a closed or fully rounded form, distinguishing it from the more open "open e" character [ɛ]. While it is now considered obsolete in standard IPA, it remains part of Unicode as a historic script symbol and may appear in linguistic transcriptions or dialectal writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+029A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Closed Open E |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Closed Epsilon |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x029A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000029A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u029a |