U+10334 "𐌴" Gothic Letter Aihvus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌴
U+10334 "𐌴" Gothic Letter Aihvus 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. This specific character represents the sound equivalent to the Greek letter epsilon or the Latin letter E, often transcribed as "ei" or "ai" in scholarly contexts, and holds the numeric value of 5 in the Gothic numeral system, where letters were also used for numbers. Its name "Aihvus" is reconstructed from the Gothic word for "horse," reflecting the traditional naming convention of the alphabet derived from runic or Germanic origins.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10334 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Gothic Letter Aihvus |
| Block | Gothic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF34 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010334 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf34 |