U+1031E "𐌞" Old Italic Letter Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌞
U+1031E "𐌞" Old Italic Letter Uu is a grapheme from the Old Italic script, which was used by various ancient Italic peoples, including the Etruscans and early Romans, before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. This particular letter represents a vocalic sound, likely the /u/ vowel, and belongs to a writing system that ultimately derived from the Greek alphabet via Euboean colonists. Its encoded form allows modern scholars and digital typographers to accurately represent historical inscriptions and linguistic studies of pre Latin texts, preserving an important link to early Mediterranean literacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1031E |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter Uu |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF1E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001031E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf1e |