U+10300 "𐌀" Old Italic Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌀
U+10300 "𐌀" Old Italic Letter A is the first letter of the Old Italic script, a writing system used across the Italian peninsula before the rise of the Latin alphabet. It represents the vowel /a/ and is directly derived from the archaic Greek letter alpha, reflecting the adaptation of Etruscan and other Italic languages to their own phonetic needs. This character is part of the Old Italic Unicode block, which encodes scripts used by ancient peoples such as the Etruscans, Oscans, and Umbrians. Its form resembles an inverted or sideways 'A', serving as a key artifact for scholars studying the early development of alphabetic writing in Europe.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10300 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter A |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010300 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf00 |