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Cursive script 'e' and capital 'E' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style |
E (named e , plural ees)[1] is a vowel an the fift letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the maist commonly uised letter in mony leids, includin: Czech,[2] Dens,[2] Dutch,[2] Inglis,[3] French,[4] German,[5] Hungarian,[2] Latin,[2] Norwegian,[2] Spaingie,[6] an Swadish.[2]
| Egyptian hieroglyph q’ |
Phoenician He |
Etruscan E |
Greek Epsilon |
Roman/ Cyrillic E |
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Letter 'E' differs little frae its derivational soorce, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. In etymology, the Semitic hê haes been suggestit tae hae stairtit as a prayin or cryin human figure (hillul 'jubilation'), an wis probably based on a seemilar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicatit a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter representit /h/ (an /e/ in foreign wirds), in Greek hê acame epsilon wi the value /e/. Etruscans an Romans follaeed this uisage. Altho Middlin Inglis spellin uised 'e' tae represent lang an short /e/, the Great Vowel Shift chynged lang /eː/ (as in 'me' or 'bee') tae /iː/ while short /e/ (as in 'met' or 'bed') remains a mid vowel.
- Ε ε : Greek letter Epsilon
- Ɛ ɛ : Latin letter Epsilon
- Е е : Cyrillic letter Ye
- Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye
- Э э : Cyrillic letter E
- ℮ : Estimatit sign (uised on prepackaged guids for sale within the European Union).
- € : Euro sign.
- ℯ : a mathematical constant.
- ㅌ : a Hangul letter.
- ∈ : in set theory, the seembol for set membership.
- ℇ : the Euler–Mascheroni constant.
| Character | E | e | ||
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| Unicode name | LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER E | LATIN SMAA LETTER E | ||
| Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 69 | U+0045 | 101 | U+0065 |
| UTF-8 | 69 | 45 | 101 | 65 |
| Numeric chairacter reference | E | E | e | e |
| EBCDIC faimily | 197 | C5 | 133 | 85 |
| ASCII 1 | 69 | 45 | 101 | 65 |
- 1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
In Breetish Sign Leid (BSL), the letter 'e' is signed bi extendin the index finger o the richt haund touchin the tip o index on the left haund, wi aw fingers o left haund open.
- ↑ "E" a letter Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (1993). Ees is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is rendered E's, Es, e's, or es.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Kelk, Brian. "Letter frequencies".
- ↑ Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. Archived frae the original on 8 Julie 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.
- ↑ "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in French". Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Archived frae the original on 12 Mairch 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.
- ↑ "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in German". Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Archived frae the original on 28 Juin 2012. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.
- ↑ "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in Spanish". Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Archived frae the original on 11 Mey 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.
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| Éé | Èè | Ĕĕ | Êê | Ếế | Ềề | Ễễ | Ểể | Ěě | Ëë | Ẽẽ | Ėė | Ȩȩ | Ḝḝ | Ęę | Ēē | Ḗḗ | Ḕḕ | Ẻẻ | Ȅȅ | Ȇȇ | Ẹẹ | Ệệ | Ḙḙ | Ḛḛ | Ɇɇ |
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