Reversed ze (Ԑ ԑ; italics:
''Ԑ ԑ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
. Its form is a reversed
Cyrillic letter Ze (З з
''З з''). It resembles the
Latin letter epsilon (Ɛ ɛ) and the
Greek letter Epsilon (Ε ε), as well as a hand-written form of the uppercase Latin E and
Cyrillic letter Ye, but has different origins from them. Reversed Ze was added to the Unicode 5.0 Standard, but is still uncommon in most Cyrillic fonts.
Reversed Ze is used in
Enets, where it represents (like the e in ''bet'' or the a in ''ant'').
[Enets (Онай базаан)]
/ref> It has also been used in the Khanty language
Khanty (also spelled Khanti or Hanti), previously known as Ostyak (), is a branch of the Ugric languages composed of multiple dialect continuum, dialect continua. It is varyingly considered a language or a collection of distinct languages spoken i ...
.
Computing codes
See also
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ...
References