Latin epsilon

Latin epsilon or open e (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, and is included in the African reference alphabet.

In the Berber Latin alphabet currently used in Algerian Berber school books, and was before that proposed by the French institute INALCO only, it represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative [ʕ].

Unicode

Character	Ɛ		ɛ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN E		LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	400	U+0190	603	U+025B
UTF-8	198 144	C6 90	201 155	C9 9B
Numeric character reference	Ɛ	Ɛ	ɛ	ɛ

See also

File:Greek lc epsilon.svg

It looks similar to the lowercase epsilon.

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