U+24A0 "⒠" Parenthesized Latin Small Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |