Epsilon (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic epsilon (Ԑ ԑ; italics: Ԑ ԑ, also called reversed ze) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. 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. Reversed Ze was added to the Unicode 5.0 Standard, but is still uncommon in most Cyrillic fonts.

Writing systemCyrillic

TypeAlphabetic

Language of originEnets

Sound values/ɛ/~/æ/

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Epsilon
Ԑ ԑ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Enets
Sound values	/ɛ/~/æ/
In Unicode	U+0510, U+0511
History
Development	Ε ε ϵ Ɛ ɛ Ԑ ԑ
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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Cyrillic epsilon is used in Enets, where it represents /ɛ~æ/ (like the e in bet or the a in ant).^[1][2][3] It has also been used in the Khanty language as a variant of Ukrainian Ye (Є є).^[4][5]