U+10301 "𐌁" Old Italic Letter Be Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌁
U+10301 "𐌁" Old Italic Letter Be is a character that represents a letter from the Old Italic scripts, a family of alphabets used in the Italian peninsula before the rise of the Latin alphabet. This specific letter corresponds to the sound /b/ and is directly ancestral to the Latin letter B, as well as the Greek Beta. It is encoded in the Unicode Old Italic block, which preserves historical writing systems that were employed by various ancient peoples, including the Etruscans and Oscans. The glyph itself resembles a modern B but with more angular proportions, reflecting its chiseled inscriptions into stone or metal.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10301 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter Be |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF01 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010301 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf01 |