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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Old Italic
Script Extensions Old Italic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter