U+1030D "𐌍" Old Italic Letter En Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌍
U+1030D "𐌍" Old Italic Letter En is a character representing a letter from the Old Italic script, an alphabetic writing system used across the Italian peninsula before the rise of the Latin alphabet. This specific character, "En," corresponds to the consonant sound /n/ and is directly descended from the Phoenician alphabet, sharing a common origin with the Greek letter Nu and the Latin letter N. It belongs to the Unicode block for Old Italic scripts, which covers various ancient Italic alphabets including Etruscan, Umbrian, and Oscan, and is encoded for use in digital texts and academic research involving classical epigraphy and historical linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1030D |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter En |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001030D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf0d |