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Reversed Ze

Reversed Ze
Ԑ ԑ
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values/ɛ~æ/
History
Development
Ɛ ɛ
  • Ԑ ԑ
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Reversed Ze (Ԑ ԑ; italics: Ԑ ԑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is a reversed Cyrillic letter Ze (З з З з). It resembles the Latin letter epsilon (Ɛ ɛ) and the Greek letter Epsilon (Ε ε), as well as a hand-written form of the uppercase Latin E and Cyrillic letter Ye, but has different origins from them. Reversed Ze was added to the Unicode 5.0 Standard, but is still uncommon in most Cyrillic fonts.

Reversed Ze is used in Enets, where it represents /ɛ~æ/ (like the e in bet or the a in ant).[1][2][3] It has also been used in the Khanty language.[4][5]

Computing codes

Character information
Preview Ԑ ԑ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
REVERSED ZE
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
REVERSED ZE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1296 U+0510 1297 U+0511
UTF-8 212 144 D4 90 212 145 D4 91
Numeric character reference Ԑ Ԑ ԑ ԑ

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