U+025E Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E
U+025E was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. The character is also known as closed 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+025E forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The open-mid central rounded vowel, or low-mid central rounded vowel, is a vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɞ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is
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. The symbol is called closed reversed epsilon. It was added to the IPA in 1993; before that, this vowel was transcribed ⟨ɔ̈⟩.IPA charts were first published with this vowel transcribed as a closed epsilon, ⟨ʚ⟩ (that is, a closed variant of ⟨ɛ⟩, much as the high-mid vowel letter ⟨ɵ⟩ is a closed variant of ⟨e⟩), and this variant made its way into Unicode as U+029A ʚ LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OPEN E. The IPA charts were later changed to the current closed reversed epsilon ⟨ɞ⟩, and this was adopted into Unicode as U+025E ɞ LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 606 |
UTF-8 | C9 9E |
UTF-16 | 02 5E |
UTF-32 | 00 00 02 5E |
URL-Quoted | %C9%9E |
HTML hex reference | ɞ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Éž |
alias | closed reversed epsilon |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni025E |
Adobe Glyph List | eopenreversedclosed |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E | |
LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED EPSILON | |
IPA Extensions | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Latin | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
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✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Lower | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |