Latin epsilon

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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.^{[citation needed]}

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 by ISO as LATIN LETTER OPEN E.^[1]

LaTeX

In LaTeX, the ɛ symbol is designated by the token "\varepsilon"^{[citation needed]} and renders slightly differently:

See also

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

References

1. ^ Asmus Freytag; Rick McGowan; Ken Whistler (2006-05-08). "Unicode Technical Note #27: Known Anomalies in Unicode Character Names". The Unicode Consortium. http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn27/. Retrieved on 2009-02-24. "This is actually a Latin epsilon and should have been so called."