U+10310 "𐌐" Old Italic Letter Pe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌐
U+10310 "𐌐" Old Italic Letter Pe is a character from the Old Italic script, a writing system used in ancient Italy by various peoples including the Etruscans and early Romans before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. This specific letter represents the sound /p/, similar to the Latin letter P, and it is thought to have been derived from the Greek letter Pi. The Old Italic Letter Pe is part of a larger set of characters that were essential for inscribing texts on stone and metal artifacts, offering scholars a window into the early linguistic and cultural exchanges across pre Roman Italy. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for the digital preservation and study of these historically significant inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10310 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter Pe |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF10 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010310 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf10 |