U+10331 "𐌱" Gothic Letter Bairkan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌱
U+10331 "𐌱" Gothic Letter Bairkan is a letter from the Gothic alphabet, an ancient script used primarily to write the Gothic language, an East Germanic language known from manuscripts like the 4th-century Codex Argenteus. Its name "Bairkan" derives from the Gothic word for "birch," and it represents the "b" sound, corresponding to the Latin letter B and the Greek beta. This character is part of the Gothic block in Unicode, which was added to support scholarly transcription and digital preservation of Gothic texts. Visually, it resembles a rounded form with a looped top, reflecting its origins in the adaptation of Greek and Latin script by the Gothic bishop Ulfilas.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10331 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Gothic Letter Bairkan |
| Block | Gothic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010331 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf31 |