Latin epsilon

Latin epsilon (majuscule: Ɛ, minuscule: ɛ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet, based on the lowercase of the Greek letter epsilon (ε). In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel. It occurs in the orthographies of many Niger-Congo languages, such as Ewe (Ɛwɛgbɛ), and is included in the African reference alphabet. In Kabyle, it represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative.

In mathematical notation, ɛ ( in MathML) is often called "epsilon" and is used interchangeably with the lunate epsilon symbol ϵ.

Unicode

In Unicode, the majuscule Ɛ is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block at U+0190 and the minuscule ɛ is encoded at U+025B. It has been misnamed^{[citation needed]} by ISO as "LATIN LETTER OPEN E".

LaTeX

In LaTeX, the ɛ symbol is designated by the token "\varepsilon" and renders slightly differently:

See also

• Open O
• Writing systems of Africa (section on Latin script)
• Open-mid front unrounded vowel
• Greek Epsilon
• Reversed Ze Ԑ

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

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