U+10303 "𐌃" Old Italic Letter De Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌃
U+10303 "𐌃" Old Italic Letter De is a glyph from the Old Italic script, used to represent the sound equivalent to the Latin letter D. This character is part of a historical writing system that was employed by various Italic peoples, including the Etruscans, before the widespread adoption of the Latin alphabet. It appears in Unicode as a scholarly reconstruction of the ancient letter, primarily intended for historical and linguistic documentation. In its original use, the letter De would have been written right to left, aligning with the early Etruscan and Italic writing direction, and its shape is a direct ancestor of the modern Latin D.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10303 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter De |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010303 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf03 |