Unicode Character "ə" (U+0259)

The character ə (Latin Small Letter Schwa) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0259. It is encoded in the IPA Extensions block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ə.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Latin Small Letter Schwa
Unicode Codepoint U+0259
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block IPA Extensions
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character Ə (U+018F)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+0259 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ə
HTML (hex) ə
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %C9%99
CSS \000259
JavaScript, JSON \u0259
C, C++, Java \u0259
Python \u0259
Rust \u{0259}
Ruby \u0259

How to type "ə"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 2 5 9. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 2 5 9. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ə
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ə
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ə
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC9 0x99
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0259
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000259

Characters based on "ə" (U+0259)

References