| Symbol Name | Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 |
| Unicode | U+0259 |
| Unicode block | |
| General category | Lowercase Letter (Ll) |
| CSS Code | \0259 |
| Hex Code | 0x0259 |
| HTML Code | ə |
| LaTeX | \schwa |
| Symbol | ə |
| URL encode (UTF-8 percent) | %C9%99 |
| Spoken / screen reader name | Latin Small Letter Schwa |
| UTF-8 | C9 99 |
| UTF-16 | 0259 |
| UTF-32 | 00000259 |
1\documentclass{article}2\usepackage{pifont}3\schwa 4\end{document}You can type the latin small letter schwa symbol on most modern devices with the help of following methods:
Alt + 601 on Windows (numeric keypad with Num Lock), or insert via Character Map.
Edit → Emoji & Symbols, search "latin small letter schwa", or use Unicode Hex Input with 0259.
Ctrl + Shift + U, type 0259, then Enter (layout-dependent).
Paste from this page, use text replacement, or pick from the Latin keyboard.
Paste from this page or use a keyboard with Latin letter support.
1span.schwa::before { content: "\0259"; font-family: "Charis SIL", "Doulos SIL", "DejaVu Serif", "Times New Roman", serif; }1<span>ə</span>Latin Small Letter Schwa symbol's representation in different programming languages can be found in the table below:
| Language | Representation |
|---|---|
| JavaScript / TypeScript | '\u0259' or String.fromCodePoint(601) |
| Python | '\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA}' or chr(601) |
| Rust | '\u{0259}' |
| C / C++ | UTF-8 source or wchar_t with U+0259 |
| Go | string(rune(0x0259)) |
| Ruby | "\u{0259}" |