E
5th letter of the Latin alphabet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with the Cyrillic letter Ҽ.
This article is about the letter. For Euler's number, see e (mathematical constant). For other uses of the symbol e or E, see E (disambiguation).
For technical reasons, "E#" redirects here. For E sharp, see E♯.
E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is e (pronounced /ˈiː/); plural es, Es or E's.[1]
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Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Sound values | |
In Unicode | U+0045, U+0065 |
Alphabetical position | 5 |
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Development | |
Time period | c. 700 BC – present |
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Associated graphs | ee, e(x), e(x)(y) |
Writing direction | Left-to-right |
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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It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.[2][3][4][5][6]