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U+0259 · LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA

Latin Small Letter Schwa

  • CodepointU+0259
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
  • Decimal601
  • BlockIPA Extensions (U+0250–U+02AF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0259 (ə) is LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA, a lowercase letter in the IPA Extensions block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+018F Ə.

How to type ə

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C9 992 bytes
UTF-1602591 code unit
UTF-32000002594 bytes
HTML decimalə
HTML hexə
CSS\259in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0259
JSON\u0259
Python\u0259
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA}by name
Java / C#\u0259
C / C++\u0259universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{259}
Go\u0259
Ruby\u0259
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(601)
URL-encoded%C9%99percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+01DDǝLatin Small Letter Turned E U+04D9әCyrillic Small Letter Schwa
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Characters built on ə

U+2094ₔLatin Subscript Small Letter Schwa U+1D4AᵊModifier Letter Small Schwa
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Nearby in IPA Extensions

All in block →
U+0253ɓLatin Small Letter B with Hook U+0254ɔLatin Small Letter Open O U+0255ɕLatin Small Letter C with Curl U+0256ɖLatin Small Letter D with Tail U+0257ɗLatin Small Letter D with Hook U+0258ɘLatin Small Letter Reversed E U+025AɚLatin Small Letter Schwa with Hook U+025BɛLatin Small Letter Open E U+025CɜLatin Small Letter Reversed Open E U+025DɝLatin Small Letter Reversed Open E with Hook U+025EɞLatin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E U+025FɟLatin Small Letter Dotless J with Stroke