U+1031B "𐌛" Old Italic Letter Ers Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌛
U+1031B "𐌛" Old Italic Letter Ers is a letter from the Old Italic script, which was used to write various ancient languages on the Italian peninsula, including Etruscan, Oscan, and early forms of Latin. This specific character represents the sound /r/ and is a variant or alternative form of the more common letter "R" found in the Etruscan alphabet, sometimes distinguished by its angular or hooked shape. Its name "Ers" is derived from the Etruscan word for this sound, and it belongs to the Old Italic Unicode block, which encodes ancient scripts predating the classical Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1031B |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter Ers |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001031B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf1b |