Э

E (Э э; italics: Э э or Э э; italics: Э э); also known as backwards e, from Russianэ оборо́тное, e oborótnoye, is a letter found in three Slavic languages: Russian, Belarusian, and West Polesian. It represents the vowels[e] and [ɛ], as the e in the word "editor". In other Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic script, the sounds are represented by Ye (Е е), which in Russian and Belarusian represents in initial and postvocalic position or with palatalization of the preceding consonant. This letter closely resembles and should not be confused with the older Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye (Є є), of which Э is a backwards version.