U+A7AB "Ɜ" Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ɜ
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 |