Ɇ (lowercase: ɇ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from E with the addition of a diagonal stroke through the letter. Both the capital and lowercase variants of E with stroke were added to Unicode in 2004.
It represents [ɛ] in Mazahua and Chinantec of Ojitlán.1
It represents [æ] in the Chichimeca Jonaz alphabet .2
It' is also used in the Ocuiltec alphabet where it represents a mid central vowel [ə].3
The Secretaría de Educación Pública de México's practical orthography for indigenous languages uses e with a stroke to indicate a nasalized vowel.1
Jacques Pelletier du Mans used ɇ in his proposal for the reform of French orthography Dialoguɇ Dɇ l’Ortografɇ e Prononciation Françoęſɇ (1550), but this failed to gain traction.4
Code positions
| Preview | Ɇ | ɇ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL E WITH STROKE | LATIN SMALL E WITH STROKE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 582 | U+0246 | 583 | U+0247 |
| UTF-8 | 201 134 | C9 86 | 201 135 | C9 87 |
| Numeric character reference | Ɇ |
Ɇ |
ɇ |
ɇ |
References
References
- Moyogo Jacquerye, Denis (22 January 2016). "L2/16-032: Proposal to encode two Latin characters for Mazahua" (PDF). Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- Norma de escritura de la lengua Úza' (chichimeco jonaz) [Writing Standard for the Chichimeco Jonaz language] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI). 2021. pp. 86, 101. ISBN 978-607-8669-20-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Muntzel, Martha; Martínez, Aileen (2014). "El Alfabeto Práctico Pjyɇkakjo". Estudios de Cultura Otopame. 9. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- Peletier du Mans, Jacques (1550). Dialoguɇ Dɇ l’Ortografɇ e Prononciation Françoęſɇ (in French). Poitiers: E. de Marnef. Retrieved 3 November 2025.