U+2C78 "ⱸ" Latin Small Letter E with Notch Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⱸ
U+2C78 "ⱸ" Latin Small Letter E with Notch is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in phonetic transcription, particularly within the context of the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) to represent a specific vowel sound. Its defining visual feature is a small notch or indentation cut into the letterform’s right side, which distinguishes it from a standard Latin E and indicates a precise, narrow pronunciation value. While rare in everyday text, this character serves a crucial role in linguistic documentation and language preservation, allowing scholars to accurately transcribe the distinct phonemes found in Uralic languages such as Finnish, Estonian, or Sami.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C78 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Notch |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⱸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⱸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c78 |