Reversed Ze

Not to be confused with the lowercase epsilon or the Latin letter Ɛ.

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
Ԑ ԑ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/ɛ~æ/
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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

See also

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode

References

1. "Лесной энецкий язык | Малые языки России". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
2. Khanina, Olesya (2018-01-17). "Documenting a language with phonemic and phonetic variation: the case of Enets". Language Documentation & Conservation. 12: 433 (4 in file).
3. Enets (Онай базаан)
4. "Cyrillic Supplement". The Unicode Consortium.
5. "PROPOSAL SUMMARY FORM TO ACCOMPANY SUBMISSIONS FOR ADDITIONS TO THE REPERTOIRE OF ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF).