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 IPA Extensions in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
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
3. 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | AB B2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | AB B2 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 AD 30 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 2B 32 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 2B 32 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 86 51 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 86 51 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni025E |
| Adobe Glyph List | eopenreversedclosed |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| Yes | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | |
| R |