U+1031D "𐌝" Old Italic Letter Ii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌝
U+1031D "𐌝" Old Italic Letter Ii is a letter from the Old Italic scripts, which were used by various ancient Italic peoples, including the Etruscans and early Romans, before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. This specific character represents a variant or long form of the letter "I," often used in epigraphic inscriptions to denote a prolonged or distinct vowel sound. The Old Italic script itself is a writing system that evolved from the Greek alphabet and was adapted to write several pre-Roman languages of Italy. Today, this character is included in Unicode's Old Italic block, primarily for historical linguistic and scholarly research, allowing modern digital representation of ancient texts and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1031D |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter Ii |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001031D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf1d |