U+10317 "𐌗" Old Italic Letter Eks Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐌗

U+10317 "𐌗" Old Italic Letter Eks is a character from the Old Italic script, which was used by various ancient peoples of the Italian peninsula including the Etruscans, Oscans, and Umbrians before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. This particular letter represents the sound /ks/ or /x/, similar to the Greek letter chi or the Latin X, and appears in the Old Italic block of Unicode, which encodes alphabets derived from a common Etruscan source. The character is displayed as a distinct graphic form, often resembling an X or a cross, and is part of a historical writing system that provides insight into the linguistic and cultural heritage of pre-Roman Italy. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and enthusiasts can digitally preserve, study, and share this ancient script in modern text processing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+10317
Version Added 3.1
Name Old Italic Letter Eks
Block Old Italic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐌗
HTML Hex Encoding 𐌗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDF17
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010317
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udf17

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