What Ǝ means
Ǝ is a letter in the Pan-Nigerian alphabet.
That is a Latin-based set of letters intended for writing Nigerian languages. In a word, Ǝ functions as part of the spelling; how it is read depends on the language's orthography.
Part of the collection
Who writes Ǝ
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Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does Ǝ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
Collections with Ǝ
4How to type or find Ǝ
- Also called
- backwards E · backward E · reversed E
- Search it as
- turned E · Ǝ lowercase · exists sign
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
ƎCSS
\018ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
Ǝ
HTML hex
Ǝ
CSS content
content: "\018E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%C6%8E
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.





