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U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa

U+0259 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 Schwa and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter Schwa.

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+0259 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:

Ə, or ə, also called schwa, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), minuscule ə is used to represent the mid central vowel or a schwa.
It was invented by Johann Andreas Schmeller for the reduced vowel at the end of some German words and first used in his 1820s works on the Bavarian dialects.

Representations

System	Representation (click value to copy)
Nº	601
UTF-8	C9 99
UTF-16	02 59
UTF-32	00 00 02 59
URL-Quoted	%C9%99
HTML hex reference	ə
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	É™
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	AB B0
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	AB B0
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 30 AC 35
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 51 2B 30 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 4F 2B 30 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	86 4F
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	86 4F
LATEX	\Elzschwa
AGL: Latin-4	uni0259
AGL: Latin-5	uni0259
Adobe Glyph List	schwa
RFC 5137	\u'0259'
Bash and Zsh inside `echo -e`	\u0259
C and C++	\u0259
C#	\u0259
CSS	\000259
Excel	=UNICHAR(601)
Go	\u0259
JavaScript	\u0259
Modern JavaScript since ES6	\u{259}
JSON	\u0259
Java	\u0259
Lua	\u{259}
Matlab	char(601)
Perl	"\x{259}"
PHP	\u{259}
PostgreSQL	U&'\0259'
PowerShell	`u{259}
Python	\u0259
Ruby	\u{259}
Rust	\u{259}
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Related Characters

Confusables

Latin Small Letter Turned E

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
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 Schwa
Lowercase (Lower)	✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Latin Small Letter Schwa
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Latin Small Letter Schwa
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Latin Capital Letter Schwa
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Latin Capital Letter Schwa
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Latin Capital Letter Schwa
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Latin Capital Letter Schwa
Case Folding (cf)	Latin Small Letter Schwa
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 Schwa
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 Schwa
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Latin Small Letter Schwa
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 Schwa
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 Schwa
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R