U+A7AB "Ɜ" Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A7AB "Ɜ" Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E is a relatively rare typographic letter used primarily in historical or phonetic contexts, most notably as a variant form of the uppercase letter epsilon or as a symbol in certain African language orthographies. It appears as an inverted or mirrored version of the lowercase open e (ɛ), often employed to represent a specific vowel sound in phonetic transcription or to distinguish lexical items in written text. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and was added to the Unicode standard to support scholarly and linguistic documentation where such a reversed glyph is necessary.

General Properties

Code Point U+A7AB
Version Added 7.0
Name Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E
Block Latin Extended-D
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ɜ
HTML Hex Encoding Ɜ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9E 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA7AB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A7AB
C/C++/Java Escape \ua7ab

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Uppercase Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point "ɜ" U+025C Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Lowercase Code Point "ɜ" U+025C Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Simple Case Folding "ɜ" U+025C Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Case Folding "ɜ" U+025C Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ɜ" U+025C Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
NFKC Simple Casefold "ɜ" U+025C Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Upper