U+10304 "𐌄" Old Italic Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌄
U+10304 "𐌄" Old Italic Letter E is a glyph representing the vowel sound /e/ in various ancient scripts of the Italian peninsula, including Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and early Latin. Derived from the Greek letter Epsilon (Ε), this character is part of the Old Italic script block and was used in inscriptions and writing systems that predate the standardized Latin alphabet. Its shape typically resembles a simplified, angular version of the modern Latin letter E, reflecting the common origin of these writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10304 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter E |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010304 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf04 |