U+AB34 "ꬴ" Latin Small Letter E with Flourish Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬴ
U+AB34 "ꬴ" Latin Small Letter E with Flourish is a specialized glyph within the Latin Extended-E block, designed for use in certain phonetic or orthographic transcriptions where a standard lowercase 'e' is augmented with a decorative or diacritical flourish. This character is not commonly found in everyday text but serves a niche role in historical linguistics or specific African language alphabets, where such flourishes can denote tone, vowel quality, or a distinct phonetic value. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and typographers can encode and display this rare letter consistently across digital platforms, preserving its functional and aesthetic purpose in specialized writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB34 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Flourish |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB34 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB34 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab34 |