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U+025C Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E

U+025C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0250 to U+02AF IPA Extensions in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E. The character is also known as reversed epsilon.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+025C forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 3 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The term Reversed epsilon (U+025C ɜ LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED OPEN E) has multiple uses and may refer to one of the following articles:

In phonetics, it is used to indicate an Open-mid central unrounded vowel

In EU law, it is used to affirm safety standards compliance on some products. See CE mark#Reversed epsilon

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	604
UTF-8	C9 9C
UTF-16	02 5C
UTF-32	00 00 02 5C
URL-Quoted	%C9%9C
HTML hex reference	ɜ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	Éœ
alias	reversed epsilon
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	AB B1
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	AB B1
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 30 AC 38
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 51 2B 31 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 4F 2B 31 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	86 50
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	86 50
AGL: Latin-5	uni025C
Adobe Glyph List	eopenreversed

Related Characters

Confusables

Latin Small Letter Turned Open E

Cyrillic Small Letter Ze

Cyrillic Small Letter Ze with Descender

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED OPEN E
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED EPSILON
Block (blk)	IPA Extensions
General Category (gc)	Lowercase Letter
Script (sc)	Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Lowercase (Lower)	✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Latin Capital Letter Reversed Open E
Case Folding (cf)	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✔
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✔
Cased (Cased)	✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Lower
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Latin Small Letter Reversed Open E
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R