U+24A0 "⒠" Parenthesized Latin Small Letter E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+24A0 "⒠" Parenthesized Latin Small Letter E is a typographic symbol belonging to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, used primarily for representing the lowercase letter "e" enclosed in parentheses. It is part of a set of parenthesized Latin letters often employed in list formatting, academic notation, or as a stylistic alternative in text where a visually distinct marker is needed without altering the alphabetical sequence. This character allows for compact representation in contexts like outlines, citations, or labeling systems where parentheses serve as a framing element, and it exists alongside similarly enclosed uppercase and lowercase letters in the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+24A0
Version Added 1.1
Name Parenthesized Latin Small Letter E
Block Enclosed Alphanumerics
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis
"e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E
")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⒠
HTML Hex Encoding ⒠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x92 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x24A0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000024A0
C/C++/Java Escape \u24a0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis
"e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E
")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis
NFKC Simple Casefold "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis
"e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E
")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other