U+10342 "𐍂" Gothic Letter Raida Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐍂
U+10342 "𐍂" Gothic Letter Raida is a letter from the Gothic alphabet, which was developed in the 4th century AD by Bishop Ulfilas for his translation of the Bible into the Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language. This character represents the sound /r/ and is derived from the Greek letter Rho (Ρ), though its exact shape reflects the adaptation of Greek and possibly Runic scripts to the Gothic writing system. Raida, whose name means "ride" or "journey" in Old Germanic, appears in historical manuscripts like the Codex Argenteus, and today it is encoded in Unicode as part of the Gothic block to support scholarly study and digital preservation of ancient texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10342 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Gothic Letter Raida |
| Block | Gothic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐍂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐍂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8D 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010342 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf42 |