What ⱸ means
It marks vowel sounds in Swedish dialect transcription.
The Swedish Dialect Alphabet (Landsmålsalfabetet) grew from Sundevall’s 1856 system for detailed speech records. Lundell proposed it in 1878; it was printed in 1879.
A dictionary of Swedish dialects in Finland maps ⱸ to e̞ in the International Phonetic Alphabet: an e pronounced with the tongue slightly lower. ⱹ and ⱺ are companion signs. As of 2026, Finland’s language institute lists this mapping in a conversion table.
Who writes ⱸ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⱸ 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.
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How to type or find ⱸ
- Search it as
- notched e · Swedish dialect alphabet · Landsmålsalfabetet
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
ⱸCSS
\2C78Unicode input
Enter U2C78 with a Unicode-aware picker; e plus a combining notch is not equivalent. A supporting font is needed to show it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ⱸ
HTML hex
ⱸ
CSS content
content: "\2C78";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B1%B8
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.