U+A7AB "Ɜ" Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin