U+2C7B "ⱻ" Latin Letter Small Capital Turned E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⱻ
U+2C7B "ⱻ" Latin Letter Small Capital Turned E is a typographic symbol used primarily in phonetic transcription, often representing a specific vowel sound in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, where it denotes a reduced or centralized mid vowel. It is designed as a small capital, rotated version of the letter E, giving it a distinct appearance that visually echoes its phonetic value. This character falls within the Latin Extended-C block of Unicode, ensuring its support for specialized linguistic notation. Its usage is largely confined to scholarly works on Uralic languages, such as Finnish, Estonian, and Sami, where precise phonetic representation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C7B |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Small Capital Turned E |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⱻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⱻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C7B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C7B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c7b |