U+10318 "𐌘" Old Italic Letter Phe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌘
U+10318 "𐌘" Old Italic Letter Phe is a letter from the Old Italic script, specifically representing the sound /pʰ/ or a similar aspirated bilabial plosive. This character was used in various ancient Italic alphabets, such as Etruscan and Oscan, which were derived from the Greek alphabet and served as precursors to the Latin alphabet. The letter holds historical significance as part of the writing systems of pre Roman Italy, and it is encoded in Unicode to preserve and enable digital representation of this ancient script for scholarly and cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10318 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter Phe |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010318 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf18 |