Reversed Ze (Ԑ ԑ; italics:
''Ԑ ԑ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
. 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
The Enets (russian: энцы, ; singular: , ; also known as Yenetses, Entsy, Entsi, Yenisei or Yenisey Samoyeds) are a Samoyedic ethnic group who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River. Historically nomadic people, they now m ...
. In Enets, it represents .
[Enets (Онай базаан)]
/ref>[ It was thought to have been used in the Khanty language, but there is no proof supporting that 'Ԑ' was used.]
Computing codes
See also
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 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 ...
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