U+10308 "𐌈" Old Italic Letter The Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌈
U+10308 "𐌈" Old Italic Letter The is a glyph from the Old Italic script, a writing system used in the Italian peninsula before the rise of the Latin alphabet. This specific letter, named "The," corresponds to the Greek letter theta and likely represented a voiceless aspirated dental or fricative sound, similar to the "th" in English "thin." It is part of the Unicode Old Italic block, which encodes alphabets such as Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and other ancient Italic languages, and it serves as a valuable resource for digitally preserving and studying early epigraphic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10308 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter The |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010308 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf08 |