U+025B "ɛ" Latin Small Letter Open E Unicode Character
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U+025B "ɛ" Latin Small Letter Open E is a phonetic symbol representing a mid front unrounded vowel sound, like the "e" in the English word "bed." It is widely used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for transcribing speech sounds across various languages, including French and many West African languages. In addition to its phonetic role, this character appears in the orthographies of some natural languages, such as Ewe and Akan, to denote a distinct vowel phoneme. Its visual form is a lowercase epsilon derived from the Greek letter, and it is distinct from the similar-looking Latin small letter E in both shape and function.
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Latin Small Letter Schwa with Hook
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Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
General Properties
Code Point
U+025B
Name
Latin Small Letter Open E
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter Epsilon
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ɛ
HTML Hex Encoding
ɛ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC9 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding
0x025B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000025B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u025b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin