U+1033E "𐌾" Gothic Letter Jer Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐌾
U+1033E "𐌾" Gothic Letter Jer is a letter from the Gothic alphabet, an ancient writing system devised in the 4th century by Bishop Ulfilas to translate the Bible into the Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic tongue. It represents the sound /j/, similar to the English "y" in "yes," and is derived from the Greek letter iota or possibly the Latin I, reflecting the alphabetic influences on Gothic script. This character is part of the Gothic block in Unicode, which was included to support scholarly and historical documentation of this early Germanic language, and it appears in the limited corpus of Gothic texts, such as the Codex Argenteus, a famous manuscript of Ulfilas's Bible.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1033E |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Gothic Letter Jer |
| Block | Gothic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐌾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐌾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8C 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001033E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf3e |