U+10319 "ð" Old Italic Letter Khe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+10319 "ð" Old Italic Letter Khe is a letter from the Old Italic script, a family of alphabets used in ancient Italy before the rise of the Roman Empire, including Etruscan, Oscan, and Umbrian. This specific character represents a guttural or velar sound, akin to the Greek chi, and is found in the Etruscan alphabet where it denoted a /k/ or aspirated /kĘ°/ sound. The Old Italic Letter Khe typically appears in inscriptions on artifacts like pottery and stone monuments, offering modern scholars valuable insight into the linguistic history of pre-Roman Italic cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10319 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter Khe |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010319 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf19 |