U+1031F "𐌟" Old Italic Letter Ess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌟
U+1031F "𐌟" Old Italic Letter Ess is an alphabetic glyph representing a specific sibilant sound in various ancient Italic scripts, such as Etruscan, Oscan, and Umbrian, which were used across the Italian peninsula before the widespread adoption of the Latin alphabet. Its letterform resembles a stylized, angular 'S' shape, corresponding to the letter that later evolved into the Latin 'S'. This character is part of the Old Italic Unicode block and is employed in modern digital typography for academic reconstruction, historical inscriptions, and linguistic research, helping to preserve and transmit the written heritage of pre-Roman cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1031F |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Old Italic Letter Ess |
| Block | Old Italic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF1F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001031F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf1f |