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Ǝ ǝ
Ǝ ǝ

Ǝ ǝ or Turned E is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet used in African languages using the Pan-Nigerian Alphabet or the African reference alphabet. The minuscule is based on a rotated e and the capital form majuscule Ǝ, based on a horizontally flipped majuscule E.

Unicode encodings

Character Ǝ ǝ
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED E LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED E
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 398 U+018E 477 U+01DD
UTF-8 198 142 C6 8E 199 157 C7 9D
Numeric character reference &#398; &#x18E; &#477; &#x1DD;

Not to be confused with U+2203 THERE EXISTS (HTML &#8707;<dot-separator> &exist;<dot-separator> as a mathematical symbol).

In Windows, the uppercase "Ǝ" can be generated by holding the Alt key and pressing 398 on the number pad, and the lowercase "ǝ" with Alt + 477. In MacOS with the U.S. Extended keyboard, the letters Ǝ ǝ are made with Option-Shift-: followed by E e respectively.

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