Unicode Character "ə" U+0259 Latin Small Letter Schwa
Unicode Version 15.1
ə
Summary
The unicode character "ə" at code point U+0259 is Latin Small Letter Schwa. It is a character in the IPA Extensions block and is part of the Latin script. The character is a lowercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "ə" is 0xC9 0x99 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x0259.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0259 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ə |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ə |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0259 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000259 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0259 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ə" U+018F Latin Capital Letter Schwa |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ə" U+018F Latin Capital Letter Schwa |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ə" U+018F Latin Capital Letter Schwa |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ə" U+018F Latin Capital Letter Schwa |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |